Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 06 MAY 1942 |
| Type: | Lockheed 18-08-01 Lodestar |
| Operator: | South African Air Force - SAAF |
| Registration: | 246 |
| C/n / msn: | 18-2053 |
| First flight: | 1940 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | at an unknown location (South Africa) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Swung on takeoff; crashed and destroyed by fire.
Sources:
» The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
