Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 17 NOV 1955 |
| Time: | 23:59 |
| Type: | Douglas C-54-DO |
| Operator: | Peninsular Air Transport |
| Registration: | N88852 |
| C/n / msn: | 3123 |
| First flight: | 1942 |
| Engines: | 4 Pratt & Whitney R-2000-11 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 70 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 74 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | S of Seattle-Boeing Field, WA (BFI) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Seattle-Boeing Field International Airport, WA (BFI/KBFI), United States of America |
| Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 17K |
Crashed in a residential area following takeoff.
PROBABLE CAUSE : "The excessively high drag resulting from the improperly indexed propeller blades and inability to feather. These conditions were the result o a series of maintenance errors and omissions." Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest Circular 50-AN/45 (204-209)
» Youngstown Vindicator - Nov 18, 1955
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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Distance from Seattle-Boeing Field International Airport, WA to Newark International Airport, NJ as the crow flies is 3826 km (2391 miles).
Distance from Seattle-Boeing Field International Airport, WA to Newark International Airport, NJ as the crow flies is 3826 km (2391 miles).
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