ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334058
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Date: | Friday 20 February 1959 |
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Type: | Douglas DC-7C |
Owner/operator: | Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) |
Registration: | N740PA |
MSN: | 44882/694 |
Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO) |
Destination airport: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO) |
Narrative:The DC-7 was being used for a crew transitional training and checkout flight. One of the manoeuvres carried out was a maximum glide angle approach to landing. During the flare out of this manoeuvre a high descent rate continued until the aircraft struck the runway with heavy impact. A fire started and destroyed the plane.
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