ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334085
| Date: | Tuesday 13 January 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | California Air Freight |
| Registration: | N1240N |
| MSN: | 22404 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Panther Peak, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR) |
| Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, WA (SEA/KSEA) |
The aircraft crashed into the ridge of a mountain range (Panther Peak) at an altitude of 8600 feet msl, located 45 miles to the right of the airway. The minimum safe altitude for the direct route Burbank-Seattle is 14500 feet compared to 8500 feet over the airway route.
Sources:
Madera Tribune 15 January 1959, p1
Madera Tribune Wednesday 14 January 1959, p1
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