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| Description | Explosion on the flight deck aboard U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) near the starboard bow, after a McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee (BuNo 124968) of Fighter Squadron VF-172 "Night Owls" crashed into parked aircraft in a deck landing accident off Korea on 16 September 1951. The accident resulted in the loss of seven lives and four aircraft: two F2H-2s (BuNo 124966, 124968) and two Grumman F9F-2 Panthers (Bureau No 125128, 125131) of VF-51 "Screaming Eagles". The F2H was piloted by LtJG Keller. The Essex, with assigned Carrier Air Group 5 (CVG-5), was deployed to Korea from 26 June 1951 to 25 March 1952. |
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| Source | Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-433494, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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| current | 19:04, 24 March 2008 | | 740 × 578 (56 KB) | Finavon | caption cropped |
| 16:50, 12 July 2007 |  | 740 × 610 (61 KB) | Carguychris | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-433494). Shows September 16 1951 crash of McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee (Bureau No. 124968) aboard US Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9). |
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