Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 04 AUG 1959 |
| Type: | Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor |
| Operator: | Johnson Flying Service |
| Registration: | N8419 |
| C/n / msn: | 5-AT-58 |
| First flight: | 1929-06-29 (30 years 1 months) |
| Engines: | 3 Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | Moose Creek, ID (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Fire fighting |
| Departure airport: | Grangeville-Idaho County Airport, ID, United States of America |
| Moose Creek Airstrip, ID, United States of America |
The Tri-Motor took off from the Grangeville to deliver goods to the backcountry airstrip at Moose Creek on the Nezperce National Forest and to drop two smokejumpers on a fire burning on Pettibone Ridge. Aboard the aircraft were a forest supervisor, a smokejumper foreman and two smokejumpers. When landing at Moose Creek to drop off the supplies before dropping the jumpers, the aircraft crashed into the trees at the end of the dirt runway and burst into flames.
Sources:
» The Missoulian
» The Ford Tri-Motor 1926-1992 / William T. Larkins
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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.
