1962 — Sep 22, USN Martin Marlin flies into high ground, Montague Island, Gulf of AK-10

–10 Aviation Safety Network. 22Sep1962 USN Martin P5B Marlin crash Montague Island, AK.
–10 Harrisonburg Daily News Record, VA. “Party Reaches…Wreckage…Alaska….” 9-25-’62
–10 Star-News, Pasadena, CA. “Seek Lost Navy Plane in Alaska.” 9-24-1962, p. 36.

Narrative Information

Aviation Safety Network, Flight Safety Foundation:
“Date Saturday 22 September 1962
“Type: Martin P5B Marlin
“Operator: United States Navy
“Registration: 140144
“Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
“Location: Montague Island, AK
“Phase: En route
“Nature: Military
“Departure airport: Kodiak Airport, AK…United States of America
“Destination airport: ?
“Narrative: Crashed during a routine patrol flight over the Gulf of Alaska. It flew into
high ground (1900 ft) near the southern tip of Montague Island.”

Newspapers

Sep 24, United Press International: “Kodiak, Alaska – UPI – Search was continuing today near Montague Island for a missing twin-engine Navy Air-plane feared down in the Gulf of Alaska with ten men aboard. The air, land and sea search for the P5M Marlin anti-submarine flying boat began Saturday [Sep 22] when the plane was reported missing on a familiarization flight over the gulf. The search effort has been hampered by foggy, rainy weather. The plane, stationed with the 42nd patrol squadron of the North Island Naval Air Station at San Diego, Calif., was [missing words] Kodiak Island Naval Station here.” (Star-News, Pasadena CA. “Seek Lost Navy Plane…Alaska.” 9-24-1962, p. 36)

Sep 25, Associated Press: “Kodiak, Alaska (AP) – A search party reached a Navy patrol plane from San Diego Monday that crashed and burned at the 1,900-foot level on Montague Island Saturday, killing all 10 men aboard. The plane was spotted by a search craft on the island in Prince William Sound about 220 miles northeast of here. A party of Marines and Coast guardsmen climbed to the crash scene and radioed there were no survivors. The twin-engine P5M was attached to Patrol Squadron 42 of San Diego. It crashed while on a routine patrol over the Gulf of Alaska.” (Harrisonburg Daily News Record, VA. “Party Reaches Plane Wreckage on Alaska Isle.” 9-25-1962, p. 1.)
Sources

Aviation Safety Network, Flight Safety Foundation. 22 Sep 1962 US Navy Martin P5B Marlin crash Montague Island, AK. Accessed 9-30-2022 at: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19620922-0

Harrisonburg Daily News Record, VA. “Party Reaches Plane Wreckage on Alaska Isle.” 9-25-1962, 1. At: http://www.newspaperarchive.com/FullPagePdfViewer.aspx?img=147534421

Star-News, Pasadena, CA. “Seek Lost Navy Plane in Alaska.” 9-24-1962, p. 36. Accessed at: http://www.newspaperarchive.com/FullPagePdfViewer.aspx?img=48087605