| Date: | Thursday 22 August 1968 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Convair CV-600 |
| Owner/operator: | East Coast Leasing |
| Registration: | N278E |
| MSN: | 32 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Other |
| Location: | Martinsburg Airport, WV (MRB) -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
An unused hangar at Martinsburg Airport, WV (MRB) was used to store 5000 bales of hay. Early in the morning a fire started, destroying the hangar and one Convair plane of East Coast Leasing (N278E). Another plane (CV-240 N91239) sustained fire damage to the wheels and other possible heat damages.
CV-600 N278E was sold to Ross S. Liscomb and broken up at Dupage.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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