Consolidated B-24 Liberator crash, Sep 15, 1944 (8 killed)

Consolidated B-24 Liberator accident on September 15, 1944 near Flagstaff Arizona, United States with 8 fatalities.

A B 24J Liberator on a night training flight from Bakersfield to Kirtland Field, New Mexico, struck the west slope of Humphreys Peak in the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona, about 15 miles off course. The aircraft was not heard from after reporting over Ash Fork at 3:02 am, and it was destroyed on impact with all eight crew lost. Wreckage remains scattered on the mountain slope.

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