Accident Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation 143197,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334332
 

Date:Monday 23 December 1957
Time:15:45
Type:Silhouette image of generic CONI model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation
Owner/operator:United States Navy
Registration: 143197
MSN: 4471
Year of manufacture:1957
Fatalities:Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 23
Aircraft damage: Destroyed, written off
Category:Accident
Location:40 km NW off Kahuku Point, Oahu, HI -   Pacific Ocean
Phase: En route
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Barbers Point NAS, HI (NAX)
Destination airport:Barbers Point NAS, HI (NAX)
Narrative:
All four engines failed while at 1500 feet and the aircraft was ditched in the Pacific Ocean with towering waves, some of which topped 14 feet.

Sources:

The Willy Victor Roster
Muscatine Journal and News Tribune, December 24,1957


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