Status: | |
Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1963 |
Type: | Douglas C-54E-15-DO (DC-4) |
Operator: | Força Aérea Portuguesa |
Registration: | 6601 |
MSN: | 27351 |
First flight: | 1945 |
Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Passengers: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 14 |
Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
Location: | 15 km (9.4 mls) SW off Las Palmas, Islas Canarias ( Spain)
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Phase: | Approach (APR) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | ? |
Destination airport: | Las Palmas-Gando Air Base (LPA/GCLP), Spain |
Narrative:The C-54 transport plane ditched five minutes before it scheduled to land at Las Palmas. The floating aircraft and eleven survivors were located the next morning. Three occupants remained missing.
The airplane was en route from Angola to Lisbon, Portugal. Las Palmas was a planned refueling stop.
Sources:
» Passauer Neue Presse 24 January 1963, p3
» Scramble
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El Litoral 23-1-1963
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.