Date: | Tuesday 30 October 1951 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 43-15109 |
MSN: | 19575 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 5 km NE of Riverside, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Amarillo AFB, TX (AMA/KAMA) |
Destination airport: | San Bernardino-Norton AFB, CA (SBD/KSBD) |
Narrative:A C-47A transport plane was destroyed when it crashed in the Box Springs Mountains. All six on board were killed.
The airplane was based at Madison-Truax Field, WI and operated on a flight to San Bernardino-Norton AFB in California. A stop was made at Amarillo, Texas to pick up four passengers.
The crash site was near the summit of a 2400-ft high mountain top.
Sources:
El Litoral 31-10-1951 p.1
Toledo Blade - Oct 31, 1951 The Milwaukee Journal - Oct 31, 1951 The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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