ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336092
| Date: | Sunday 10 September 1950 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas R5D-3 (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 87755 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Midway Island -
 U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Tokyo-Haneda Airport (HND/RJTT) |
| Barbers Point NAS, HI (NAX) |
Ditched due to fuel exhaustion caused by faulty navigation near Midway Island enroute from Tokyo-Haneda Airport, Japan to Barbers Point NAS, Hawaii and crew rescued by Navy ship. Plane sank by gunfire.
Sources:
Montreal Gazette 14 September 1950, p11
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