This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time.
Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances. Seven of the occupants on board the aircraft were killed, and two survived with serious injuries. In the airspace around Washington, DC the three aircraft entered a large storm front and lost visual contact with one another. Captain Bernard Cederholm, the pilot of , [ ] decided to divert to the now-abandoned Barnsville Auxiliary Airfield near Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Due to weather circumstances and low visibility, Cederholm failed to locate the airfield. He was following a holding circuit when the aircraft hit trees on Locust Mountain, located approximately an eighth of a mile west of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania at EST, and broke up. A fire broke out on impact, and seven of the nine aboard were killed. The two survivors left were Corporal Joseph W. Enloe and Private Charles H. Davis, who were found wandering around the site of the crash a half hour afterwards.
The aircraft, a Douglas CA with the tail number was first flown in The cause of the crash was never fully determined, although it is believed to be a case of CFIT controlled flight into terrain. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version.
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