Date:	Monday 17 January 1955
Time:	05:15
Type:	Lockheed C-121J Super Constellation
Owner/operator:	United States Navy
Registration:	131639
MSN:	4140
Year of manufacture:	1953
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	112 km SW off Stephenville, NL, Canada -   Atlantic Ocean
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Stephenville-Ernest Harmon AFB, NL (YJT/CYJT)
Destination airport:	Patuxent River NAS, MD (NHK/KNHK)

Narrative:
Super Constellation 131639 departed Stephenville on a flight to Patuxent River NAS (NHK). While over Prince Edward Island the crew reported that two engines were out. A Boeing B-29 Superfortress escorted the plane back towards Stephenville, but lost visual contact with the plane.
It crashed into the sea.

13 Believed dead in plane crash: sight empty rafts (Holland Evening Sentinel, 1955-01-17)

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