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| Date: | Friday 12 January 1962 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed P2V Neptune |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 131521 |
| MSN: | 426-5402 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Kronborg Glacier -
 Greenland
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Keflavík Naval Air Station (KEF/BIKF) |
| Keflavík Naval Air Station (KEF/BIKF) |
Crashed during routine reconnaissance mission looking for Russian submarines.
Sources:
navy.mil
vpnavy.org
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
Daily Globe January 13,1962
Location
Images:
photo (c) U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Jeffrey Lehrberg; Kronborg Glacier; 08 August 2004; (publicdomain)
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