Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 09 JUL 1949 |
| Type: | Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar |
| Operator: | Fairbanks Morse and Company |
| Registration: | NC10000 |
| C/n / msn: | 18-2569 |
| First flight: | 1943 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 1,6 km (1 mls) W of Roanoke, IL (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Chicago (unknown airport), IL, United States of America |
| Saint Louis-Lambert International Airport, MO (STL/KSTL), United States of America |
The corporate Lodestar suffered an engine failure en route to St. Louis. The crew attempted to carry out a forced landing in a cornfield near Roanoke, but the airplane crashed and burned. The passenger that was killed in the accident was Charles H. Morse II, VP of the company.
Sources:
» Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Jul 10, 1949
» 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.
