Posted on 09/21/2020 4:09:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The North American B-25 crashed Saturday evening a few miles southeast of the Stockton Metropolitan Airport. Three people were on board. One person walked away and two others were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
The aircraft was extensively damaged.
(San Joaquin County Sheriffs Office via AP)
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That’s a dirty shame. Those planes are priceless. So glad crew will be ok.
That’s a dirty shame. Those planes are priceless. So glad crew will be ok.
44-28938 Old Glory privately owned in Latham, New York.[63] Involved in non-fatal crash in Stockton, California on September 19, 2020.[64] [65]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_North_American_B-25_Mitchells#United_States
That isn’t gonna buff-out.
There are around 100 B25s left. About 45 of them in flying condition. Well, maybe 44 now. It’s not as bad as B-17s or most WWII aircraft of which there are very few. B25s kept flying until 1960 in the US and the 1970s in other countries. So there are comparatively more around.
Glad the crew all survived it.
We had a b17 crash outside of Hartford last year. It killed a bunch of people.
That was a shamenot only for those injuredbut also for the lost aircraft.
We had a B-25 at an air show last week here at Lake if the Ozarks.
No wonder it crashed. Look at that engine!
30 Seconds Over Stockton just doesnt have the same ring to it.
The Mitchell, Doolittle’s plane over Tokyo. I usually see about three or four over my House during the annual Chino Planes of Fame Air Show. Damn shame. When I saw the headline I immediately thought Harrison Ford. Praying for the injured.
It’s in Stockton. As in, kalifornia. They’ll be lucky if there’s anything left after it’s been in that filthy ghetto overnight.
Not the greatest title either but it was an enjoyable and memorable ride in a B17.
My father, a WWII B-24 bomber pilot in the South Pacific, was an instructor pilot on B-25’s at (then) Reese Air Force Base, Lubbock, Texas, in the late 1940’s, after the U.S. Air Force became a separate branch of the U.S. military.
My dad was a hydraulics & pheumatics tech in the USAF Reserves. The Airlift Group to which he was attached has a B-25 that the commander used as his personal liason craft. They were tasked to work on the nose gear. Well SOMEBODY re-connected the hydraulic lines backwards. That spring day at Willow Grove NAS they did a taxi test. The pilot cut the nose wheel gear to steer onto the main strip and the plane went the opposite direction, off the taxiway sinking the nose gear into the mud about halfway up the strut. The colonel was not a happy man.
Do you live in the area?
I guess it didn’t occur to the writer to give a little history on the aircraft.
I lived in Modesto. The “Stockton Gun And Knife Club” was notorious even back then. White boys didn’t go there with less than platoon strength. It’s only gotten worse. Crime stats put them near the top. Nationwide.
Every repair I do ( industrial maintenance everything from pneumatics to PLCs) I always verify the repair. It sounds like a practical joke.
Nowadays the terminations would be color anodized or keyed to only connect one way. Not then, I guess? This took place around 1960 with an airplane built almost 20 years earlier.
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