Westover - Westover

On January 14, 1942 at 08:00 PM, Westover - Westover experienced a crash involving Douglas B-18 Bolo, operated by United States Army Air Forces - USAAF, with the event recorded near Mt Waternomee New Hampshire.

The flight was categorized as survey / patrol / reconnaissance and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

7 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 5 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 28.6%.

Crew on board: 7, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. The aircraft left Westover AFB at the end of the afternoon for a maritime patrol flight off the east US coast as a German submarine have been located in this region. After an uneventful mission, the crew returned to his base in the evening. While approaching the coast, the crew noted that weather conditions deteriorated and that visibility was low due to clouds till 4,000 feet. The captain decided to continue the flight under the cloud layer but did not realize that the wind was strong. While cruising by night and in snow falls, the twin engine aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in a wooded area on Mt Waternomee located in the White Mountain National Forest. SAR teams arrived on the scene two hours later and were able to evacuate five injured crew while two others were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration 37-619, MSN 2619, year of manufacture 1937.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 44.0215°, -71.7959°.