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Status:	Final
Date:	27 NOV 1970
Time:	17:05 AST
Type:	McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF
Operator:	Capitol International Airways
Registration:	N4909C
C/n / msn:	46060/472
First flight:	1969
Total airframe hrs:	4944
Engines:	4 Pratt & Whitney JT3D-
Crew:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 10
Passengers:	Fatalities: 46 / Occupants: 219
Total:	Fatalities: 47 / Occupants: 229
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Anchorage International Airport, AK (ANC) (United States of America)
Phase:	Takeoff (TOF)
Nature:	Int'l Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Anchorage International Airport, AK (ANC/PANC), United States of America
Destination airport:	Tokyo-Yokota AFB (OKO/RJTY), Japan
Flightnumber:	3/26

Narrative:
The DC-8 operated on a flight for the Military Airlift Command (MAC) from Tacoma-McChord AFB to Cam Ranh Bay via Anchorage and Yokota.
The aircraft failed to become airborne while trying to take-off from Anchorage runway 06R and overran. It struck a wooden barrier, an ILS structure, a 12-foot deep drainage ditch and caught fire.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the aircraft to attain the necessary airspeed to effect lift-off during the attempted takeoff. The lack of acceleration, undetected by the crew until after the aircraft reached V1 speed, was the result of a high frictional drag which was caused by a failure of all main landing gear wheels to rotate. Although it was determined that a braking pressure sufficient to lock all of the wheels was imparted to the brake system, the source of this pressure could not be determined. Possible sources of the unwanted braking pressure were either a hydraulic/brake system malfunction or an inadvertently engaged parking brake."

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