ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332544
Date: | Wednesday 6 October 1965 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas LC-47H |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
Registration: | 17239 |
MSN: | 25424/13979 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 5 km from McMurdo Station-Williams Field (NZWD) -
Antarctica
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed on Ross Ice Shelf about 3 miles from Williams Field, Antarctic, while taking off after a practice open field landing. An improperly rigged ski cable slipped and the front of one ski dug into the snow.
Sources:
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher Revision history:
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