ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333197
Date: | Sunday 25 November 1962 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas LC-47H |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
Registration: | 50777 |
MSN: | 26378/14933 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Davis Glacier -
Antarctica
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Davis Glacier |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The ski-equipped LC-47 was making a jet assisted takeoff when a JATO canister was released accidentally before it stopped firing, hitting the aircraft's propeller. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
Sources:
Youngstown Vindicator 26 November 1962, p4
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