- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | December 05, 1945 |
Time: | 1950 |
Location: | Off Smyrna, Bahamas |
Operator: | Military - U.S. Navy |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Patrol |
AC Type: | Martin PBM Mariner |
Registration: | 59225 |
cn / ln: | ? |
Aboard: | 13 (passengers:0 crew:13) |
Fatalities: | 13 (passengers:0 crew:13) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | Twenty minutes after taking off, while cruising at low height, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in an explosion into the Sargasso Sea, The crew may have lost their situational awareness or suffered a spatial disorientation and lost control of the aircraft while flying by night over the sea, without any ground visual references. |
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