Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 13 JAN 1953 |
| Type: | Grumman SA-16A Albatross |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 51-061 |
| C/n / msn: | G-139 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Korean coast (South Korea) |
| Phase: | () |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Capsized in high seas during SAR mission in heavy icing conditions.
Sources:
» US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
» USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
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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.
