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| Date: | xx Jan 1968 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas LC-117D |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 99853 |
| MSN: | 43339 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Other |
| Location: | Williams Field -
 Antarctica
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
The LC-117D was damaged beyond repair when it slipped from her sling while being hauled aboard a ship. It fell 25 feet to the quay. The airplane was pushed out on the ice of the Ross Sea to drift away to sink in the frozen Antarctic water.
Sources:
A history of the famous vx-6 squadron's aviators. The men who flew the frozen continent and the polar ice cap 1955-1999 / By Noel Gillespie
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