Descripción del Accidente ASN 01 FEB 1958 Douglas C-118A (DC-6) 53-3277 - Norwalk, CA
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Fecha:sábado 1 febrero 1958
Hora:19:13
Tipo:Silhouette image of generic DC6 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Douglas C-118A (DC-6)
Operador:United States Air Force - USAF
Registración: 53-3277
Numéro de série: 44648/602
Año de Construcción: 1955
Tripulación:Fatalidades: 6 / Ocupantes: 6
Pasajeros:Fatalidades: 35 / Ocupantes: 35
Total:Fatalidades: 41 / Ocupantes: 41
Víctimas en Tierra:Fatalidades: 1
Víctimas de la colisión:Fatalidades: 6
Daños en la Aeronave: Anulado
Consecuencias: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Ubicación:Norwalk, CA (   Estados Unidos de América)
Fase: En ruta (ENR)
Naturaleza:Militar
Aeropuerto de Salida:Long Beach Municipal Airport, CA (LGB/KLGB), Estados Unidos de América
Aeropuerto de Llegada:Wrightstown-McGuire AFB, NJ (WRI/KWRI), Estados Unidos de América
Descripción:
A USAF Douglas C-118A transport plane (53-3277, msn 44648/602) departed Long Beach Airport, California at 19:08 for a flight to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. While climbing under VFR the aircraft collided with a US Navy Lockheed P2V-5F Neptune (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.

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Distance from Long Beach Municipal Airport, CA to Wrightstown-McGuire AFB, NJ as the crow flies is 3868 km (2418 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.

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