Roosevelt Roads - Roosevelt Roads

On March 23, 1965 at 12:00 AM, Roosevelt Roads - Roosevelt Roads experienced a crash involving Canadair CL-28 Argus, operated by Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF, with the event recorded near Atlantic Ocean All World.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

16 people were known to be on board, 16 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 14, crew fatalities: 14, passengers on board: 2, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The airplane departed Roosevelt Roads NAS (Ceiba) for a night training mission with 14 crew members from the 404th Squadron and 2 scientists on board. While cruising overt the Atlantic, the airplane went out of control and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean some 96 km north of Porto Rico. SAR operations were conducted but eventually suspended few days later as no trace of the aircraft nor the 16 occupants was found.

Aircraft reference details include registration 20727, MSN 18, year of manufacture 1958.