ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 331189
Date: | Monday 16 March 1970 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed EC-121K Super Constellation |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
Registration: | 145927 |
MSN: | 5508 |
Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 28 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Da Nang Airport (DAD) -
Vietnam
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Tainan Airport (TNN/RCNN) |
Destination airport: | Da Nang Airport (DAD/VVDN) |
Narrative:The Fleet Airborne Reconnaissance Sqdn One (VQ-1) EC-121K crashed while landing with the no. 3 engine out/feathered while returning from Tainan.
The aircraft stalled, crashed and cartwheeled into a USAF hangar area of airfield and broke into three pieces: cockpit and fuselage forward of the wing slid into revetment wall and burned; center section crashed upside down into a street and burned; the tail section landed on a softball field. One man (tail section) walked away unscathed, the four other survivors (center section) were gravely injured.
Sources:
The Willy Victor Roster Vietnam Air Losses : United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973 / Chris Hobson Location
Images:
photo (c) Bill Kirner; Da Nang Airport (DAD); 1968
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