Date:	Wednesday 6 December 1978
Time:	17:25
Type:	Douglas DC-6
Owner/operator:	Fuerza Aérea Mexicana
Registration:	TP-0203
MSN:	43129/106
Year of manufacture:	1948
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	0,8 km N of Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA) -   United States of America
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA/KOMA)
Destination airport:	San Antonio International Airport, TX (SAT/KSAT)

Narrative:
The aircraft suffered an engine fire on takeoff and crashed into a flood-control levee at the airport boundary, where it exploded and burned for several hours.
The DC-6 had been under repair for three days and was still leaking oil from one of the engines as it departed.

Lakeland Ledger - Dec 7, 1978
El Siglo de Torreón 7 December 1978, p1
El Siglo de Torreón 8 December 1978, p6+19

photo (c) Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives; Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA); 06 December 1978

photo (c) Ger Buskermolen; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA); February 1976

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