Date: | Wednesday 6 December 1978 |
Time: | 17:25 |
Type: | Douglas DC-6 |
Owner/operator: | Fuerza Aérea Mexicana |
Registration: | TP-0203 |
MSN: | 43129/106 |
Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 0,8 km N of Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA/KOMA) |
Destination airport: | San Antonio International Airport, TX (SAT/KSAT) |
Narrative:The aircraft suffered an engine fire on takeoff and crashed into a flood-control levee at the airport boundary, where it exploded and burned for several hours.
The DC-6 had been under repair for three days and was still leaking oil from one of the engines as it departed.
Sources:
Lakeland Ledger - Dec 7, 1978
El Siglo de Torreón 7 December 1978, p1
El Siglo de Torreón 8 December 1978, p6+19
Location
Images:
photo (c) Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives; Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA); 06 December 1978
photo (c) Ger Buskermolen; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA); February 1976
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