Lieutenant
Crew #6 Pilot
Patrol Squadron 19 (PV-19)
US Navy
Base: NAS Moffitt Field, California
† Died in Military Service †
Pilot, Lt. William E. Xiques, Staten Island, NY, of the US Navy Patrol Squadron 19 was killed July 4, 1966 northeast of Battle Creek, Michigan when his Naval Lockheed P-3A Orion crashed.
With thanks to Dave Trojan, the following is a crash summary: "Lockheed P-3A Orion, BuNo. 152172, construction number 185-5142, assigned to Patrol Squadron 19 (VP-19), Radio call sign Papa Echo Zero Five (PE-05), crashed 4 July 1966, seven miles Northeast Battle Creek, MI. The P-3A Orion was on the return leg of a cross country airways training flight from New York-Floyd Bennett Field, NJ to Naval Air Station Moffett Field, CA via Naval Air Station, Glenview, IL."
"The plane was flying at 22,000 feet and made a normal routine radio call at 2035 (8:35pm Zulu time, 2:35pm local Michigan time), but by 2040 the plane had crashed in a wooded area. The aircraft was observed by witnesses to have emerged from overcast clouds at about 3000 feet in a diving right turn. It then made a left turn and then back to the right before plummeting to the ground. It was estimated that the plane crashed at a speed of just over 500 miles per hour and at an angle of 60 degrees at the time of impact."
"The P-3A Orion weighed about 63,000 lbs and the Navy recovered approximately 53,000 pounds of wreckage from the crash site." The cause was unable to be determined.
A new re-investigation by Dave Trojan is ongoing, using modern techniques and new information gathered from historical research to determine the most likely cause of this accident.
Crew #6 Pilot
Patrol Squadron 19 (PV-19)
US Navy
Base: NAS Moffitt Field, California
† Died in Military Service †
Pilot, Lt. William E. Xiques, Staten Island, NY, of the US Navy Patrol Squadron 19 was killed July 4, 1966 northeast of Battle Creek, Michigan when his Naval Lockheed P-3A Orion crashed.
With thanks to Dave Trojan, the following is a crash summary: "Lockheed P-3A Orion, BuNo. 152172, construction number 185-5142, assigned to Patrol Squadron 19 (VP-19), Radio call sign Papa Echo Zero Five (PE-05), crashed 4 July 1966, seven miles Northeast Battle Creek, MI. The P-3A Orion was on the return leg of a cross country airways training flight from New York-Floyd Bennett Field, NJ to Naval Air Station Moffett Field, CA via Naval Air Station, Glenview, IL."
"The plane was flying at 22,000 feet and made a normal routine radio call at 2035 (8:35pm Zulu time, 2:35pm local Michigan time), but by 2040 the plane had crashed in a wooded area. The aircraft was observed by witnesses to have emerged from overcast clouds at about 3000 feet in a diving right turn. It then made a left turn and then back to the right before plummeting to the ground. It was estimated that the plane crashed at a speed of just over 500 miles per hour and at an angle of 60 degrees at the time of impact."
"The P-3A Orion weighed about 63,000 lbs and the Navy recovered approximately 53,000 pounds of wreckage from the crash site." The cause was unable to be determined.
A new re-investigation by Dave Trojan is ongoing, using modern techniques and new information gathered from historical research to determine the most likely cause of this accident.
Lieutenant
Crew #6 Pilot
Patrol Squadron 19 (PV-19)
US Navy
Base: NAS Moffitt Field, California
† Died in Military Service †
Pilot, Lt. William E. Xiques, Staten Island, NY, of the US Navy Patrol Squadron 19 was killed July 4, 1966 northeast of Battle Creek, Michigan when his Naval Lockheed P-3A Orion crashed.
With thanks to Dave Trojan, the following is a crash summary: "Lockheed P-3A Orion, BuNo. 152172, construction number 185-5142, assigned to Patrol Squadron 19 (VP-19), Radio call sign Papa Echo Zero Five (PE-05), crashed 4 July 1966, seven miles Northeast Battle Creek, MI. The P-3A Orion was on the return leg of a cross country airways training flight from New York-Floyd Bennett Field, NJ to Naval Air Station Moffett Field, CA via Naval Air Station, Glenview, IL."
"The plane was flying at 22,000 feet and made a normal routine radio call at 2035 (8:35pm Zulu time, 2:35pm local Michigan time), but by 2040 the plane had crashed in a wooded area. The aircraft was observed by witnesses to have emerged from overcast clouds at about 3000 feet in a diving right turn. It then made a left turn and then back to the right before plummeting to the ground. It was estimated that the plane crashed at a speed of just over 500 miles per hour and at an angle of 60 degrees at the time of impact."
"The P-3A Orion weighed about 63,000 lbs and the Navy recovered approximately 53,000 pounds of wreckage from the crash site." The cause was unable to be determined.
A new re-investigation by Dave Trojan is ongoing, using modern techniques and new information gathered from historical research to determine the most likely cause of this accident.
Crew #6 Pilot
Patrol Squadron 19 (PV-19)
US Navy
Base: NAS Moffitt Field, California
† Died in Military Service †
Pilot, Lt. William E. Xiques, Staten Island, NY, of the US Navy Patrol Squadron 19 was killed July 4, 1966 northeast of Battle Creek, Michigan when his Naval Lockheed P-3A Orion crashed.
With thanks to Dave Trojan, the following is a crash summary: "Lockheed P-3A Orion, BuNo. 152172, construction number 185-5142, assigned to Patrol Squadron 19 (VP-19), Radio call sign Papa Echo Zero Five (PE-05), crashed 4 July 1966, seven miles Northeast Battle Creek, MI. The P-3A Orion was on the return leg of a cross country airways training flight from New York-Floyd Bennett Field, NJ to Naval Air Station Moffett Field, CA via Naval Air Station, Glenview, IL."
"The plane was flying at 22,000 feet and made a normal routine radio call at 2035 (8:35pm Zulu time, 2:35pm local Michigan time), but by 2040 the plane had crashed in a wooded area. The aircraft was observed by witnesses to have emerged from overcast clouds at about 3000 feet in a diving right turn. It then made a left turn and then back to the right before plummeting to the ground. It was estimated that the plane crashed at a speed of just over 500 miles per hour and at an angle of 60 degrees at the time of impact."
"The P-3A Orion weighed about 63,000 lbs and the Navy recovered approximately 53,000 pounds of wreckage from the crash site." The cause was unable to be determined.
A new re-investigation by Dave Trojan is ongoing, using modern techniques and new information gathered from historical research to determine the most likely cause of this accident.
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