ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334973
| Date: | Wednesday 29 December 1954 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Kaiser-Fraser C-119G Flying Boxcar |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 53-8102 |
| MSN: | 205 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 11 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 29 km SE of Huntsville, AL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Smyrna-Sewart AFB, TN (MQY/KMQY) |
| Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM/KBFM) |
The C-119 transport plane crashed on Shin Hook Ridge, killing nine occupants. The two surivors parachuted from the plane when the rear clamshell doors opened during the accident sequence.
Reportedly part of the wing had been torn off in severe weather.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
Rome News-Tribune - Dec 30, 1954
Images:
photo (c) Stephen A Wallace; near Huntsville, AL; 08 October 2022
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