Date:	Sunday 11 January 1931
Time:
Type:	Curtiss A-3B
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Corps (USAAC)
Registration:	30-232
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Gulf of Mexico offshore of Freeport, Texas -   United States of America
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Crashed while on a flight from Matagorda, Texas to Fort Crockett (Galveston), Texas. LT J.F. Grasty and Corporal Philip Schuchmann (or Phillip Schuchman according to some sources) were killed. A body of one of the fliers was located on a mud flat near Francitas, TX on 16 January 1931. A second body, that of CPL Schuchmann, was located 25 January 1931 near Galveston. Pieces of the the aircraft washed ashore near Freeport several days prior.

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Corsicana (TX) Daily Sun, 26 January 1931, p. 14

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
05-Apr-2022 04:55	Anon.	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative, ]
14-Oct-2024 22:41	Nepa	Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Source, Operator, ]