{"id":49366,"date":"2022-11-16T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49366"},"modified":"2023-11-16T01:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T00:01:30","slug":"the-wreckage-of-a-us-marine-rf-4b-airplane-that-crashed-in-arizona-in-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/16\/the-wreckage-of-a-us-marine-rf-4b-airplane-that-crashed-in-arizona-in-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"The wreckage of a US Marine RF-4B airplane that crashed in Arizona in 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an air accident occurs in a remote and sparsely inhabited place, it is very common to find remains of the aircraft for many years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/05\/moncayo-an-airplane-graveyard-in-a-spanish-mountain-at-more-than-2000-meters\/\">Moncayo: an airplane graveyard in a Spanish mountain at more than 2,000 meters<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/11\/the-secret-airplane-of-lake-mead-a-b-29-that-sank-in-a-classified-incident-in-1948\/\">The secret airplane of Lake Mead: A B-29 that sank in a classified incident in 1948<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>We have an example of this in Parker, a town located in the west of the state of Arizona, in the USA. On October 22, 1975, <strong>a McDonnell Douglas RF-4B Phantom II reconnaissance plane<\/strong>, 153098, belonging to the 3rd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (VMFP-3) of the US Marine Corps, based at MCAS El Toro, <strong>flying over Parker on his way back from a reconnaissance flight.<\/strong> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegashikers.com\/pic\/20180415A\/p1.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vegashikers.com<\/a>, at 9:10 in the morning, <strong>the plane made three sharp turns in a row and entered a spin.<\/strong> The flight specialist, the Captain Anderson, you radioed that the plane had broken up.<\/p>\n<p>When the plane was at an altitude of 5,000 feet (1,524 meters), <strong>the pilot, 1st Lt. Robert M. Bach, gave the order to eject.<\/strong> Anderson successfully exited the plane, landing about 45 meters from the place where the plane crashed. <strong> Bach died upon impact with the ground <\/strong> before managing to separate from his ejection seat. Anderson was rescued at the crash site. <strong>47 years after that event, there are still remains of the plane in that place<\/strong>, as shown by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theparkerchannel1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Parker Channel<\/a> a few months ago in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Plane Crash from 1975 found in the hills of Parker Arizona\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_GW9X0_MWE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see below some captures of the video. Here we see <strong>elevators.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504488071_117fafbaf3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The drift of the RF-4B.<\/strong> It had a nice decoration, but the passing of the years has almost completely erased it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504964220_dddcf663ef_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the inner part of this tail section they have placed <strong>a small metal plaque in memory of 1st Lieutenant Bach<\/strong>, who died in this accident. The plate bears the emblem of the Marines.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52505041858_b26ea6be74_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remains of the RF-4B engines<\/strong>, already badly damaged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504488066_9507115af8_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>More remains of one of the engines.<\/strong> In this image the nozzle plates can be distinguished.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52504964170_93996b5a45_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found a video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WarbirdShow\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WarbirdShow<\/a> posted in November 2013, where we can see how was the plane and how were the remains 9 years ago. The decoration of its drift was still distinguished:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RF-4B, BuNo 153098, crash east of Parker, Arizona, on October 22, 1975\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFzAdK_FtAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an air accident occurs in a remote and sparsely inhabited place, it is very common to find remains of the aircraft for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16877],"tags":[2669,3542,17855,17854,10431,673],"class_list":["post-49366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-ruins","tag-arizona","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-f-4-phantom-ii","tag-mcdonnell-douglas-rf-4-phantom-ii","tag-parker-arizona","tag-united-states","tag-us-marine-corps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 20:36:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}