Navy blimp landed in San Francisco with its engines running and its crew gone

The 1942 Navy blimp L-8 landed near San Francisco with its engines running and its crew missing, marking a dramatic post-patrol incident. Lt. Ernest D. Cody and Ensign Charles Adams were aboard; at 7:38 a.m. they reported an oil slick off the Farallon Islands before losing control. Hours later the blimp reappeared over Ocean Beach with no one at the controls, then crashed at 419 Bellevue Avenue in Daly City. The Navy ruled there were no enemy engagements; Cody and Adams were declared legally dead in 1943. After the war, the blimp was repaired and sold to Goodyear, where it flew as America until 1982.