Narrative:
A fire started in an electric motor in an overhead door of a hangar at the Saint Joseph-Rosecrans Airport. Two DC-4 planes inside the hangar burned out.
Damaged on the ground
» WAAS
| Status: | |
| Date: | Wednesday 23 July 1947 |
| Time: | 02:28 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54D-15-DC (DC-4) |
| Operator: | Seaboard & Western Airlines |
| Registration: | NC91077 |
| MSN: | 22157 |
| First flight: | 1945 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | Saint Joseph Airport, MO (STJ) ( United States of America)
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| Phase: | Standing (STD) |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
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A fire started in an electric motor in an overhead door of a hangar at the Saint Joseph-Rosecrans Airport. Two DC-4 planes inside the hangar burned out.
Classification:
Hangar / ground fireDamaged on the ground
Sources:
» Piston Engine Airliner Production List / A.B. Eastwood, J. Roach, 1996» WAAS
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