Date:	Tuesday 30 October 1951
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	43-15109
MSN:	19575
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	5 km NE of Riverside, CA -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Amarillo AFB, TX (AMA/KAMA)
Destination airport:	San Bernardino-Norton AFB, CA (SBD/KSBD)

Narrative:
A C-47A transport plane was destroyed when it crashed in the Box Springs Mountains. All six on board were killed.
The airplane was based at Madison-Truax Field, WI and operated on a flight to San Bernardino-Norton AFB in California. A stop was made at Amarillo, Texas to pick up four passengers.
The crash site was near the summit of a 2400-ft high mountain top.

El Litoral 31-10-1951 p.1
Toledo Blade - Oct 31, 1951
The Milwaukee Journal - Oct 31, 1951
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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