Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 25 APR 1967 |
| Time: | 19:05 |
| Type: | Lockheed EC-121H Super Constellation |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 53-0549 |
| C/n / msn: | 4364 |
| First flight: | 1955 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 16 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 1,6 km (1 mls) S off Nantucket Island, MA (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Falmouth-Otis AFB, MA (FMH), United States of America |
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The EC-121 plane took off from Otis AFB at 18:58. Eight minutes later the crew reported a fire in the nr. 3 engine. They would attempt an emergency landing at Nantucket, but did not make it. The airplane crashed just offshore into the sea.
Sources:
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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