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| Date: | Saturday 25 July 1953 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: | Grumman F9F-6 Cougar |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 127428 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | S. Happy Jack, AZ -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | NAS Miramar, CA/VF-143 |
Crashed in rugget Mongollon Rim County. Lt (jg) Winton D. Horn (33) parachuted into woods and located next morning. He suffered serious back injury when he landed in a tree and died 2 AUG.
Sources:
Prescott Evening Courier 27 July 1953, p1/4 August 1953, p1
AAIR (KSSP)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 17-Sep-2022 13:03 | TB | Added |
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