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Searchlight, NV Navy Turbojet Crash, Aug 1970

Posted January 15th, 2008 by Stu Beitler

NAVY TURBOJET CRASH KILLS 10.

Searchlight, (UPI) -- Ten persons were killed Monday when a Navy antisubmarine warfare plane exploded in flight during a lightning storm 10 miles northwest of this small desert community.
The charred wreckage of the P3B Orion, a four-engine turboprop was scattered over a quarter mile area around a remote ridge. "There were no survivors," a sheriff's department spokesman said.
JIM HALE, a foreman at the El Dorado power plant, said "the plane just exploded in midair and came down in a fiery crash."
The Orion, a military configuration of the Lockheed Electra, took off from the Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, Nev., at 3:30 p.m. and faded from radar screens at 4 p.m.
The crew of 10 was bound for their home field at Barber's Point, Hawaii, by way of North Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif.
Searchlight is a one-street town in the high desert 55 miles southeast of Las Vegas.

Nevada State Journal Reno 1970-08-04
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!

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