Estado: | |
Fecha: | sábado 1 febrero 1958 |
Hora: | 19:13 |
Tipo: | 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 |
VÃctimas en Tierra: | Fatalidades: 1 |
VÃctimas de la colisión: | Fatalidades: 6 |
Daños en la Aeronave: | Anulado |
Consecuencias: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Ubicación: | Norwalk, CA ( Estados Unidos de América)
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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.
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.