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| Date: | Sunday 27 December 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 04402 |
| MSN: | 5.. |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Reykjavík/Keflavík-Meeks Field (KEF) -
 Iceland
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Keflavík-Meeks Field (KEF/BIKF) |
Crashed in snow storm at night, 18 minutes after takeoff.
The Catalina was one of five of PBY-5A's that were scheduled to carry out an anti-submarine sweep south of Iceland ahead of the track of a convoy of vessels bound for England.
Sources:
World War II Crash Sites in Iceland
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
VP-84 Mishap List
US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Atlantic War / Ragnar Ragnarsson
Location
Images:
photo (c) Glenn Davis; near Reykjavík/Keflavík-Meeks Field (KEF); 28 December 1942
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