Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 08 APR 1951 |
| Time: | ca 11:56 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47B-1-DK |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-48298 |
| C/n / msn: | 25559 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 13 km (8.1 mls) NE of Charleston, WV (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Louisville-Godman AFB, KY, United States of America |
| Charleston-Kanawha County Airport, WV (CRW/KCRW), United States of America |
Flew into the side of a tree-covered hill and caught fire. The C-47 was on an ADF instrument approach to runway 23 of the Charleston-Kanawha County Airport, WV (CRW).
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Sources:
» Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
» Military aviation disasters : significant losses since 1908 / D. Gero, 1999
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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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.
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