Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 27 JAN 1952 |
| Type: | Douglas C-54A-5-DO |
| Operator: | Seaboard & Western Airlines |
| Registration: | N1512V |
| C/n / msn: | 7485 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Pisa Airport (PSA) (Italy) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Pisa Airport (PSA/LIRP), Italy |
The DC-4 overran the runway on landing, coming to rest in a ditch. Fire destroyed the aircraft.
The airplane carried 50 cows of which 47 died in the fire.
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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.
