The loss, discovery, and rediscovery of the crew of U.S. Navy LA-9 at Kronborg Glacier, east Greenland

ABSTRACT In January 1962, a US Navy aircraft patroling the Denmark Stait mysteriously disappeared. In spite of an international search continuing over several weeks, the crash was first found accidentally 4.5 years later by geologists, but subsequently it was discovered that all the bodies had not b...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Brooks, Kent
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2010
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Greenland
East Greenland
glacier
Polar Record
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247410000288 2024-03-03T08:44:00+00:00 The loss, discovery, and rediscovery of the crew of U.S. Navy LA-9 at Kronborg Glacier, east Greenland Brooks, Kent 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247410000288 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247410000288 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 47, issue 2, page 181-184 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2010 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247410000288 2024-02-08T08:35:58Z ABSTRACT In January 1962, a US Navy aircraft patroling the Denmark Stait mysteriously disappeared. In spite of an international search continuing over several weeks, the crash was first found accidentally 4.5 years later by geologists, but subsequently it was discovered that all the bodies had not been returned. It was not until 2009 that the story was brought to a close with a ceremony at the naval air base in Jacksonville, Florida. Article in Journal/Newspaper East Greenland glacier Greenland Polar Record Cambridge University Press Greenland Polar Record 47 2 181 184
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