Cold Bay - Cold Bay

On August 12, 1951 at 12:00 AM, Cold Bay - Cold Bay experienced a crash involving Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer, operated by United States Navy - USN, with the event recorded near Amak Island Alaska.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a mountains crash site.

12 people were known to be on board, 12 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 12, crew fatalities: 12, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Following a training mission over the North Pacific Ocean, the crew was returning to Cold Bay Airport when on descent, the airplane hit the slope of a mountain located on the Amak Island, about 20 miles northwest of Cold Bay Airport. All 12 crew members were killed. Crew: Edwin Roy Park, pilot, Robert Wilfred Conklon, Henry Howard Wood, Leonard Walter Sexton, Elnord Ellis Flinkfelt, Ronald Lee Hunt, Brook Alton Williams, Bobby Enloe, Joseph Dale Whitherspoon, Edwin Francis Busbi Jr., Charles Wyalis Elkins, William Stuart Wagner.

Aircraft reference details include registration 66298, MSN 66298, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 55.4153°, -163.1464°.