Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 18 OCT 1958 |
| Type: | Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 141294 |
| C/n / msn: | 4418 |
| First flight: | 1956 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 29 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 0,3 km (0.2 mls) W off Argentia NAS, NF (NWP) (Canada)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Patuxent River NAS, MD (NHK/KNHK), United States of America |
| Argentia NAS, NF (NWP), Canada |
Crashed into Placentia Bay, 1000 feet short of the Argentia NAS runway during a GCA approach.
Sources:
» The Willy Victor Roster
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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.
