1975 03/02 UT Orson Nebeker airplane

Incident Name:
Date: airplane crash in 1965; death 3/2/1975
Personnel: Orson Nebeker
Age: 47
Agency/Organization: Salt Lake City Fire Department
Position: aerial firefighter

Summary: Orson Nebeker of the Salt Lake City Fire Department was injured in 1965 in a fire airplane accident. Details are currently non-existent. He died 10 years later from damaged airways he suffered during the 1965 crash.

If anyone has more information, like a newspaper or an NTSB record or even a date or airplane type, please let us know.

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Concise Information from the NTSB, FAA, AAP and research by the WLF Staff:
- aplane incident date 1965
- Orson Nebeker was injured in 1965 and died 10 years later
- Operator: unknown
- Type: unknown
- Location: presumably Utah
- FAA Registration # unknown
- NTSB # unknown
National Transportation Safety Board: unknown Probable Cause
To help find information, consult the NTSB online lookup Utility Use NTSB Identification: this is hard to do because it was a non-fatal incident, we don’t know the type of aircraft, or where or when in 1965 it crashed.
Utah Firefighter Line of Duty Deaths 1920-2012, by Steve Lutz does have a record:
Orson Nebeker
died March 2, 1975 | (plane crash and burned airways incident occurred in 1965)
airplane crash (respiratory burns)
Salt Lake City Fire Department

If anyone knows what non-fatal 1965 aircraft incident this is in the NTSB database, please let us know.
Orson was 47 when he was injured and 57 when he died from his respiratory injuries.