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At 6:03 a.m., on August 16, 1942, L-8 – having been assigned to Airship Patrol Squadron 32 – lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, on a coastal antisubmarine patrol. Its scheduled route would have taken the airship over the Farallon Islands, Point Reyes, and the locality of Montara before circling back towards the Golden Gate Bridge.
In this role, L-8, of Blimp Squadron ZP-32 was involved in a mysterious incident wherein the airship came drifting in from the Pacific Ocean over southern San Francisco at Daly City on August 16, 1942, without either of the crewmen – Lt. E. D. Cody and Ensign C. Adams – on board. [1] No trace of either man was ever found. [2]
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
The bodies were found during a routine inspection after the plane landed. "The circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation," JetBlue said.
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The crying 10-year-old boy found his way to a state trooper while lost in the wilderness. X/LtChrisOlivarez ... Texas authorities found a 2-year-old girl from El Salvador who crossed with 60 other ...
Pictures of salvage on beach March 2000, P-47G Salvage c/o Carolina Military Gallery. 11 July U.S. Army Lieutenant Phillip "Phee" Russell was attempting to land his Douglas A-26B-5-DT Invader, 43-22253, at the Portland-Westbrook Municipal Airport at 1645 hrs. this date. [315]
Synthetic aperture sonar imagery of the wreck of USS L-8.. L-8 ' s keel was laid down on 24 February 1915 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. L-8 was launched on 23 April 1917 sponsored by Miss Nancy Gill, and commissioned on 30 August 1917.