1967 USS Forrestal fire

unintended launch of a Zuni rocket from a F-4B Phantom, resulting in a fire which caused the deaths of 134 sailors and pilots onboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967
Event conflagration Q1374042
1967 USS Forrestal fire
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1967 USS Forrestal fire

Summary

1967 USS Forrestal fire is a conflagration[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of conflagration entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (599 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire is in the country of Vietnam[3].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's image is recorded as USS Rupertus (DD-851) stands by to assist the burning USS Forrestal (CVA-59), 29 July 1967 (USN 1124775).jpg[4].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's instance of is recorded as conflagration[5].
  • USS Forrestal is named after 1967 USS Forrestal fire[6].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's location is recorded as Gulf of Tonkin[7].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's Commons category is recorded as 1967 USS Forrestal fire[8].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's point in time is recorded as +1967-07-29T00:00:00Z[9].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's participated in conflict is recorded as Vietnam War[10].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 19.15138889, 'lon': 107.38472222}[11].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03m6ff0[12].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+134'}[13].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+161'}[14].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's described by source is recorded as Historigraph[15].
  • 1967 USS Forrestal fire's vessel is recorded as USS Forrestal[16].

Why It Matters

1967 USS Forrestal fire ranks in the top 5% of conflagration entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (599 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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