Underwater Excavation for Site RM-00012 in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Grant uri icon

abstract

  • DPAA partner institution East Carolina University (ECU) will conduct recovery operations on the site of one piece of aircraft wreckage believed to be associated with the loss of Consolidated PB2Y-5R Coronado. This aircraft crashed while nearing the seadrome at Naval Air Base Ebeye, Kwajalein, on a regularly scheduled flight from Honolulu with nineteen (19) personnel aboard. Two (2) remain unaccounted for.

date/time interval

  • February 2019 - July 2020