ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337515
| Date: | Wednesday 5 December 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Martin PBM-5 Mariner |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 59225 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 40 km SW off Cape Canaveral, FL, USA -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Banana River NAS, FL (COF/KCOF) |
The PBM-5 Mariner was deployed for a search mission to locate five missing US Navy TBM Avenger planes, known as "Flight 19".
PBM-5 BuNo 59225 took off at 19:27 from Banana River Naval Air Station (now Patrick Air Force Base), called in a routine radio message at 19:30 and was never heard from again.
At 19:50 the tanker SS Gaines Mills reported seeing a mid-air explosion, then flames leaping 100 feet (30 m) high and burning on the sea for 10 minutes. . Captain Shonna Stanley, reported searching for survivors through a pool of oil, but found none. The escort carrier USS Solomons also reported losing radar contact with an aircraft in the same position and time.
Sources:
Wikipedia: Flight 19
US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos
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