Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 MAR 1954 |
| Time: | 22:29 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-119F-FA Flying Boxcar |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 51-7993 |
| C/n / msn: | 10732 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-3350 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Lothian, MD (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Washington-Bolling AFB, DC (BOF/KBOF), United States of America |
| Hempstead Plains-Mitchell Field, NY, United States of America |
Crashed while attempting night VFR flight in instrument conditions.
Sources:
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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
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- 1051 built
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- 14th worst accident (currently)
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