Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 FEB 1958 |
| Type: | Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar |
| Operator: | Cluett Peabody & Company |
| Registration: | N9050 |
| C/n / msn: | 18-2563 |
| First flight: | 1943 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Chicago-Merrill C Meigs Field, IL (CGX) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Chicago-Merrill C Meigs Field, IL (CGX/KCGX), United States of America |
| White Plains-Westchester County Airport, NY (HPN/KHPN), United States of America |
Crashed into Lake Michigan when caught by wind during takeoff from Meigs Field. It came to rest just 50 feet offshore.
Sources:
» The Milwaukee Sentinel - Feb 25, 1958
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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.
