On 6/13/90 the F-4E #68-0512 piloted by Major Robert M. McGann with navigator Captain Thomas M. Steed was on a flight out of March AFB, California. The F-4E was number two in the flight support of an RF-4C transition sortie. The aircraft took off at 12:08pm and at approximately 12:35pm, the mishap aircraft crashed during a low altitude defense reaction turn. Both crewman were killed in the accident. The crash site is near the town of Shoshone, California.

Photo of the F-4E #68-0512 USAF

In the town of Baker.

Looking back at the truck parked next to Hwy 127.

Didn't take long to start finding aircraft pieces. A electrical connector and a piece of one of the turbine blades.

Was finding a lot of pieces from the canopies. I started at the end of the debris field and I'm making my way towards the impact area.

A piece from one of the variable exhaust nozzles.

Same piece turned over.

Gear

Blade from the engine.