El Toro - El Toro

On September 26, 1975 at 12:00 AM, El Toro - El Toro experienced a crash involving Convair C-131 Samaritan, operated by United States Navy - USN, with the event recorded near Galivan California.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a city crash site.

6 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 66.7%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew was engaged in a local training flight out from El Toro MCAS. After takeoff, while climbing, the airplane went out of control and crashed in the garden of the Saddleback College located about 8 miles southeast of the airfield. Four crew members were killed while two others were injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration 141012, MSN 295, year of manufacture 1955.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 33.5636°, -117.6754°.