Survey / Patrol / Reconnaissance

An undercarriage collapsed on landing. The aircraft slid for several yards before coming to rest in flames. All crew members were able to evacuate the cabin and were uninjured while the airplane was destroyed by fire.

The seaplane left Sangley Point AFB in the day on a maritime patrol flight. En route, following an engine failure, the crew contacted his base, cancelled the mission and elected to return to Sangley Point AFB. While flying back in poor weather conditions with one engine inoperative, the airplane hit the slope of Mt Mariveles located 53 km west of Manila. All 13 crew members were killed.

While performing a maritime patrol flight over the Yellow Sea, the aircraft was attacked by the pilots of two Chinese AF MiG-15. The pilot-in-command was able to evacuate the combat zone and completed an emergency landing on the Paengyong-do Island. Two crew members were killed while two others were seriously injured. The aircraft was written off.

On final approach to Adak Airport, the aircraft was too low and hit a sand dune short of runway threshold. It went out of control and crashed in flames. A crew member was killed while six other were injured.

The crew was performing a reconnaissance mission following the disappearance three days earlier of a Swedish Air Force TP-79 into the Baltic Sea. En route, the Catalina was shot down by the pilot of a Soviet MiG-15. The pilot-in-command was able to complete an emergency landing and all five crew members were rescued by the crew of the German merchant ship christened 'Münsterland'. The airplane was lost.

The crew was engaged in signals intelligence-gathering operations for the Swedish National Defense Radio Establishment. The airplane was carrying a crew of three and five employees of the signals intelligence (SIGINT) on behalf of the National Defense Radio Establishment. En route, the TP-79 was shot down by the pilot of a Soviet MiG-15 fighter and crashed into the Baltic Sea off the Gotska Sandön Island. No trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. In 1956, during an official meeting between the Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander and the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, it was confirmed by the Soviet Authorities that the aircraft has been shot down by a Soviet fighter. The wreckage was found 18 June 2003, recovered and transferred to the Swedish Air Force Museum.

The crew was conducting a night reconnaissance mission out from Busan East Airbase. At 2105LT, the radio operator made his last transmission with his base when the aircraft disappeared in unclear circumstances. No trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found.
Crew:
1st Lt Raymond Bennett Jr.,
Cpt Cecil W. Brandsted,
Cpt Wilford T. Cook,
A1C Wayne E. Lewis,
1st Lt John H. Zimmerlee Jr.

While on a night reconnaissance mission over North Korea, the crew made his last radio contact at 0601LT. The aircraft disappeared in unknown circumstances and no trace of it nor the crew was found.
Crew:
1st Lt Howard J. Davies,
1st Lt Warren M. Hoff,
A3C Norman W. Peterson,
1st Lt Robert C. Steele.

The crew left McChord AFB that day on a reconnaissance mission, taking part to rescue operations after a Northwest Airlines C-54 disappeared in the region of the Queen Charlotte Island. While returning to its base by night, the airplane was too low and hit tree tops before crashing in a wooded area located on the slope of Mt Buckhorn, about 17,5 miles south of Sequim. Three crew members were killed while five others were rescued.

Shortly after takeoff from Atsugi NAS, while in initial climb, two engines failed, causing the aircraft to stall and to crash 6 km east of the airfield. All 12 crew members were killed.