“Roger, I just want to get down to the field as soon as possible, I’m low on gas. Over.” These were the desperate words of pilot 1st Lieutenant Warder Skaggs as he contacted the U.S. Naval Air Station in Oakland just minutes before crashing into White’s Hill in Fairfax on a foggy night on May 16, 1946.
The crash, nearing its 70th anniversary in 2016, has sparked nuclear conspiracy theories and extensive independent field…