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| Date: | Monday 11 January 1965 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas LC-47J |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 50778 |
| MSN: | 26383/14938 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Shackleton Glacier -
 Antarctica
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Shackleton Glacier |
The ski-equipped LC-47J on its rollout on the skiway, when one of its skis struck a large bit unobserved sastrugi, struck its propeller, tearing off the port engine and twisting its fuselage.
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
Chicago Tribune January 15, 1965
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 2 February 1966 | 50832 | United States Navy | 6 | Ross Ice Shelf | |
w/o |
| Loss of control | ||||||
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