ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 98641
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Date: | Thursday 8 March 1951 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Boeing B-29A Superfortress |
Owner/operator: | 436th BSqn /7th BGp USAF |
Registration: | 44-62319 |
MSN: | 11796 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2.5 miles east of Zamora, Yolo County, California -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Travis AFB, California |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Boeing B-29A-75-BN Superfortress 44-62319: Delivered to the USAAF 29 May 1946. Assigned to 5th Bomb Squadron, 9th Bomb Group
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 8 March 1951: While performing a training flight, the aircraft suffered an engine failure and fire. The plane's engine caught fire and fell off the aircraft wing. Because of the damage to the plane, the crew was forced to bail out. According to a newspaper article in Solano County's Times Herald of Mar 9, 1951, Lt Bolton was the third man to exit the plane by the nose wheel hatch. Lt Bolton did not survive the bail out. The Times Herald incorrectly reported his name as Henry D Bolton.
The aircraft dove into the ground and crashed in a field located 2,5 miles east of Zamora, Yolo County, California. (At approximate Coordinates: 38°47′48″N 121°52′55″W).
As stated above, the only known fatality was 1st Lt Harry Donald Bolton. He landed in a nearby river and was drowned. The airplane captain was James "Jim" Wooffork Welch, who appears to have bailed out safely, as he died of natural causes on November 22, 2016, aged 98.
Names and ranks of the other eight crew not yet discovered, but all are presumed to have bailed out successfully
Cause: Engine failure and fire.
Sources:
1. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1944_4.h]tml
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http://dainthecbi.com/bolton.html 3. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1951/archives/crash-of-a-boeing-b-29a-75-bn-superfortress-in-zamora/]
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110010399 5.
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/1950s/1951Mar.htm 6.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173164765 7.
https://www.fold3.com/page/640259219_harry_donald_bolton/ 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamora,_California Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jun-2017 22:13 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
08-Feb-2021 08:37 |
E.Robot |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
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