Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 20 AUG 1965 |
| Type: | Lockheed EC-121M Super Constellation |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 135747 |
| C/n / msn: | 4314 |
| First flight: | 1954 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5600 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 23 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Atsugi NAS (NJA) (Japan)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Atsugi NAS (NJA/RJTA), Japan |
During touch-and-go landings the starboard main landing gear failed to extend and lock. A two wheel landing was executed an the aircraft slid off the runway upon settling onto radome and ran into a navigation aids building. Damaged beyond repair. The aircraft flew for the Fleet Airborne Reconnaissance Sqdn One (VQ-1).
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.
