Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 07 JUL 1953 |
| Type: | Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Operator: | United States Coast Guard |
| Registration: | 46617 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 6 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Mississippi River (United States of America) |
| Phase: | () |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Water-looped when struck an underwater obstacle in Mississippi River and sank. It was landing to pick up a man from a fishing boat.
Sources:
» The Windsor Daily Star - Jul 7, 1953
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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.
