Last updated: 5 August 2021
| Status: | |
| Date: | Thursday 21 January 1954 |
| Time: | ca 21:30 |
| Type: |  Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 124874 |
| MSN: | |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Wright R-3350-30W |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Aircraft fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | NW of Barbers Point NAS, HI ( United States of America)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Barbers Point NAS, HI (NAX), United States of America |
Patrol Squadron Seven (VP-7) of the US Navy was returning to the U.S. after a deployment to NAS Iwakuni, Japan.
An intermediate stop was planned at Barbers Point NAS, Oahu, Hawaii.
After a go around the aircraft mistakenly turned left into the center of the island, rather than turn right out over the ocean. The Neptune impacted Mount Pu’u Kaua (3127 feet), the third highest point on the Waianae Range on Oahu.
A helicopter with four crew later crashed during the SAR mission.
Classification:
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) - Mountain
Sources:
» El Litoral 22 January 1954, p1» 60 Years Later, Navy Man and Tragic Plane Crash Remembered
» vpnavy.com
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
