ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 5316
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Date: | Friday 31 December 1976 |
Time: | 13:00 |
Type: | Boeing-Stearman A75N1 |
Owner/operator: | Hawke Dusters |
Registration: | N53039 |
MSN: | 75-1907 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Oakdale, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Agricultural |
Departure airport: | Oakdale, CA |
Destination airport: | Oakdale, CA |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Collided with objects during aerial application flight. Crashed and caught fire.
This aircraft was earlier used in the 1973 Walter Matthau film “Charley Varrick”, where Matthau plays a crop duster who robs a bank (source: Internet Movie Database-IMDb)
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | OAK77FVA12 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=55249&key=0 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069865/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Feb-2008 12:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Dec-2013 18:51 |
harro |
Updated [Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
14-Jan-2024 17:47 |
Anon. |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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