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For the first time, woman visits site where her father died in Bedford County plane crash more than 70 years ago


SARAH HONOSKY
The (Lynchburg) News & Advance
HUDDLESTON — It was 71 years to the day her father died in a plane crash on a farm in Bedford County, and, on Tuesday, Kathleen Iacopetti stood by his memorial, wreath in hand, at the end of a cross-country journey that brought her to the site of her father’s death for the first time.
On June 22, 1950, a production model AJ-1 bomber, the Navy’s first strike plane designed to carry the nuclear bomb, crashed en route to a naval air station along the Patuxent River in Maryland.
The plane exploded in the air and fell in flames, killing its three crew members. Among them was 26-year-old James A. Moore Jr., a flight test engineer from California and a last-minute replacement on the final flight. ....

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