Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 01 FEB 1958 |
| Time: | 19:13 |
| Type: | Douglas C-118A |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 53-3277 |
| C/n / msn: | 44648/602 |
| First flight: | 1955 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 35 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 41 / Occupants: 41 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 1 |
| Collision casualties: | Fatalities: 6 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Norwalk, CA (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military passenger |
| Departure airport: | Long Beach Municipal Airport, CA (LGB/KLGB), United States of America |
| Fort Dix-McGuire AFB, NJ (WRI), United States of America |
The C-118A departed Long Beach at 19:08 for a flight to McGuire AFB. While climbing under VFR the aircraft collided with a US Navy Lockheed P2V-5F Neptune patrol bomber (127723). The Neptune had just departed from Los Alamitos for a training flight. The C-118 disintegrated and crashed through the roof of a service station. The Neptune crashed into an excavated clay pit on Norwalk Boulevard. Two occupants from the Neptune survived the accident.
Sources:
» Notable California Aviation Disasters
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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Distance from Long Beach Municipal Airport, CA to Fort Dix-McGuire AFB, NJ as the crow flies is 3868 km (2418 miles).
Distance from Long Beach Municipal Airport, CA to Fort Dix-McGuire AFB, NJ as the crow flies is 3868 km (2418 miles).
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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