ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 115619
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| Date: | Friday 15 January 1943 |
| Time: | 15:00 |
| Type: |  Republic P-47C Thunderbolt |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force (USAAF) |
| Registration: | 41-6295 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 2 Mi E Jones Beach, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Mitchel Field, Long Island, NY |
| return to same |
After departure from Mitchel Field on a local training flight, the motor caught fire and pilot was ordered to point towards the sea and bail out. The aircraft crashed along the shoreline, 2 miles east of Jones Beach, NY.
Pilot, 2nd Lt. Richard N. Nellis, of Watertown, New York, died of exposure after descending into the ocean. His body was recovered about an hour after the incident.
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp
Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Anthony J. Mireles
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130821265/richard-w-nellis#add-to-vc
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