fatalplanecrash

Fatal plane crash of Lt. Arthur Lee Foster (US Army Air Service), ~2.5 miles north of Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas, on February 10, 1925. Foster was flying a Curtiss JN-6HG-1 Jenny (A.S. 44806). Also killed in the crash was Maj. Lee Otis Wright (US Army, Ordnance Dept.) (USMA 1912). See: Arthur Lee Foster (1887-1925) www.findagrave.com/memorial/8465984/arthur-lee-foster en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_Air_Force_Base Lee Otis Wright (1888-1925) www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lowright.htm www.findagrave.com/memorial/11578238/lee-otis-wright Army Ordnance - The Journal of the Army Ordnance Association, Pg. 740, Vol. V, No. 29, March-April 1925

Home struck by a severed wing panel precipitating the fatal plane crash of Consolidated PB4Y-2, BuNo 59554, in San Diego on 22 November 1944. See: www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/consolidated-pb4y-2-privateer/ Consolidated Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer, Bu. No. 59554, took off on its first test flight. A company crew of six men were aboard. Shortly after takeoff at 12:20 p.m., the left outboard wing of the airplane separated. The airplane immediately went out of control and crashed near a residential area in Loma Portal, a short distance west of the airfield. The wing panel struck the roof of a house at 3121 Kingsley Street. All six crew members were killed. The house was occupied but there were no persons injured inside. The wing section was recovered and the cause of the separation was quickly discovered. 98 of the 102 bolts which secured it to the inner wing section had never been installed. Two workers who were responsible for installing these missing bolts, and two inspectors who had signed off the work as having been properly completed, were fired.

This was the Curtiss Pusher replica built by Otto Timm and which killed Al Wilson in 1932. Stig