The Sycamore Apartments (Former site of Tahoe Apartments)
1814 Central Ave
Alameda, CA 94501-2621
At 8:13 PM on February 7, 1973, one of two U.S. Navy A-7E Corsair II jet interceptors, assigned to Attack Squadron VA-195, flying on a routine training flight to Sacramento from the Lemoore Naval Air Station crashed at this site.
The impact, explosion and ensuing fire destroyed the apartment house and spread to three adjacent apartment buildings.
The pilot and ten people on the ground were killed.
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