ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331829
| Date: | Monday 3 June 1968 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation |
| Owner/operator: | North American Aircraft Trading |
| Registration: | 5T-TAC |
| MSN: | 4166 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1954 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | OT |
| Location: | Bissau Airport (OXB) -
 Guinea-Bissau
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
Destroyed by sabotage. This aircraft with a Portuguese aircrew was being used on the Biafran Air Bridge. The aircraft was parked with no persons on board when it exploded and caught fire. The Constellation carried the wings of two French Fouga Magister jets that were bought by Biafra.
Sources:
José Vilhena
Vliegende huursoldaten / Time Life, 1982
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