Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 JUL 1960 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar |
| Operator: | Belgische Luchtmacht |
| Registration: | CP36 |
| C/n / msn: | 11083 |
| First flight: | 1952 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-3350 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 36 / Occupants: 40 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 39 / Occupants: 43 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Rushengo (Congo (Democratic Republic))
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Crashed into mountainous terrain.
Sources:
» Belgian Military Aircraft Database / Belgian Aviation History Association (BAHA)
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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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.
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