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Re: Boeing O2B-1 Bird Strike 8 March 1928 Nicaragua
The following is from Sherrod's Marine aviation history:
Captain William C. Byrd and Sergeant Rudolph A. Frankforter met a one-in-a-million fate. As they came in for a landing at Esteli on 8 March 1928, a buzzard flew into their O2B-1, knocking off the outboard port strut. Byrd parachuted too late; Frankforter stayed with the plane and was killed when it crashed.
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George Kernahan
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