Accident description
Last updated: 18 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 15 NOV 1952 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-119C-23-FA Flying Boxcar |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 51-2570 |
| C/n / msn: | 10528 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
| Airplane damage: | Missing |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | between Anchorage, AK and Kodiak, 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 |
| Kodiak NAS, AK, United States of America |
The C-119C went missing during a flight from Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF) to Kodiak NAS, AK.
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Sources:
» Thomas Brügge
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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Fairchild C-119
- 14th loss
- 1051 built
- 2nd worst accident (at the time)
- 11th worst accident (currently)
United States of America- 42nd worst accident (at the time)
- 168th worst accident (currently)