Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 16 JAN 1952 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-119C-16-FA Flying Boxcar |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 49-0172 |
| C/n / msn: | 10409 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 32 km (20 mls) SE off Pohang (South Korea) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Seoul (K-16) Air Base (SSN/RKSM), South Korea |
On a routine resupply mission to Seoul Air Base (K-16), the airplane suffered a possible prop blade failure.
Both engines separated from aircraft in flight, and the Flying Boxcar crashed into the sea off Pohang (K-3).
Sources:
» Thomas Brügge
» Korean War Aircraft Loss Database (KORWALD)
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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.
