Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 07 NOV 1952 |
| Time: | ca 02:30 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-119C-22-FA Flying Boxcar |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 51-2560 |
| C/n / msn: | 10518 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Mt. McKinley, AK (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF/PAED), United States of America |
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Crashed into Mt. McKinley. The airplane was on a flight to the Big Delta in the Interior as part of Excercise Warmwind.
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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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