US safety investigators are probing two separate P2V Neptune aerial firefighting tanker accidents on 3 June, both of which were involved in efforts to extinguish or contain wildfires. Shortly before ...

On the afternoon of June 3, an aging Lockheed Martin P2V air tanker crashed near the border of Nevada and Utah, killing the pilot and co-pilot. The same day, one landing gear on a P2V failed to deploy ...

RENO, Nev. - A jet engine fire engulfed the wing of a Neptune Aviation air tanker moments after takeoff, sending the plane rolling into the ground and killing all three members of the Missoula-based ...

Members of a Navy recovery team examine the wreckage of LA-9, a Navy P2V Neptune aircraft that crashed onto a Greenland glacier in 1962, Aug. 9, 2004. The Navy is currently conducting recovery ...