{"id":2434,"date":"2020-06-11T20:42:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2020-06-15T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:28:39","slug":"1952-f-89-plane-crash-over-camano-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/?p=2434","title":{"rendered":"1952 F-89 Plane Crash over Camano Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2438 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jetCrash1952clippingbw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jetCrash1952clippingbw.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jetCrash1952clippingbw-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/>Finally after several tries to find an article documenting a mysterious 1952 plane crash remembered by several members of the Historical Society, we finally found it.\u00a0 No one could remember the year so that made it hard to verify the story.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to read the full account provided by local <em>Stanwood News<\/em> reporter of the day, Grant Freer.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot died but the radar operator survived,\u00a0 More Details on the F-89 aircraft for airplane history enthusiasts are <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.dtic.mil\/dtic\/tr\/fulltext\/u2\/a057002.pdf\">here (pdf download)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is an<a href=\"https:\/\/heritageflight.org\/aircraft\/f89-scorpion\/\"> F-89 D at the Skagit Heritage Museum<\/a> in at the Skagit Regional Airport in Burlington.<\/p>\n<p>As always &#8211; please send along what you heard that day when the plane crashed.\u00a0 Click the Contact Us link at the top of the site&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Karen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PlaneCrashCamano1952a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Plane Crash over Camano 1952\" width=\"946\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PlaneCrashCamano1952a-scaled.jpg 946w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PlaneCrashCamano1952a-111x300.jpg 111w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PlaneCrashCamano1952a-378x1024.jpg 378w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PlaneCrashCamano1952a-768x2079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/PlaneCrashCamano1952a-624x1689.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally after several tries to find an article documenting a mysterious 1952 plane crash remembered by several members of the Historical Society, we finally found it.\u00a0 No one could remember the year so that made it hard to verify the story. Scroll down to read the full account provided by local Stanwood News reporter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-short-historical-articles-about-camano-island-and-stanwood-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahs-fncc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}