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USAF crash report (copy)

Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue · 16 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is a copy of the US Air Force aircraft accident and missing aircraft report on F-89C 51-5853A, released through Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue. The aircraft was scrambled from Kinross AFB, Michigan on 23 November 1953 to intercept an unknown aircraft over Lake Superior. It disappeared after its radar return merged with the target, which the report identifies as an RCAF Dakota. The file includes weather data, maintenance records, the RCAF search report and a 1954 reopened search, and says no trace was found.

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“missing time”8 pages

  • p. 2 …None, Missing (8) Missing {4} Parachute Used Yes (9) No (10) Unk Duty at Time of…
  • p. 3 …Describe briefly in General terms the Extent of Damage to the Airplane, Engines and Propellers. MISSING…
  • p. 5 …Wisconsin, was reported missing over Lake Superior at approximately 2000 Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 23…
  • p. 7 …ESTIMATED TIME ENROUTE: ONE HOUR PAGE TWO CA4A 002 11. POSITION LAST REPORTED: AT COORDINATES 45…
  • p. 11 …Canada which would correlate with the time of the missing F-89. This information had bee…
  • p. 12 …Situation at the time of the Interception carried out by the Missing Aircraft 23 Nov 53…
  • p. 13 …The same weather situation affected the departure time of the additional search aircraft from Stn Centralia…
  • p. 14 …THE MISSING AIRCRAFT 1 The weather conditions existing over eastern Lake Superior at the time contact…
APPENDIX "E"
TO 976-3 (SC&T/AT4)
DATED 18 DEC 53
BREAKDOWN OF FLYING TIMES BY AIRCRAFT
25 Nov 53
26 Nov 53
27 Nov 53
28 Nov 53
TOTALS
6,000 sq mi
600 sq mi
13,500 sq mi
6,500 sq mi
29, 600 sq miles
31:55
3:00
39:05
30:25
113:25
4:20
NIL
10:25
NIL
25:00
1 USAF
DAKOTAS
C45s
SA16s
B25
H19
Total 57:20
11:35
21:00
18:25
3:20
3:00
Total 57:20
2 US COAST
GUARD
SA16
Total
14:00
14:00
3 RCAF
DAKOTAS
Total
69:35
69:35
4 CIVIL
CESSNA 140
Total
2:30
2:30
GRAND TOTAL 143:25

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Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.