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 â 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 fatherâs death for the first time. On June 22, 1950, a production model AJ-1 bomber, the Navyâs 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 flame...