ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333944
| Date: | Tuesday 15 September 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas R4D-5 (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 17163 |
| MSN: | 12519 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cape Hallett -
 Antarctica
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Cape Hallett |
The starboard landing gear collapsed on landing.
Sources:
A history of the famous vx-6 squadron's aviators. The men who flew the frozen continent and the polar ice cap 1955-1999 / By Noel Gillespie
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