| Date: | Tuesday 22 January 1963 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54E-15-DO (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | Força Aérea Portuguesa |
| Registration: | 6601 |
| MSN: | 27351 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 14 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 15 km SW off Las Palmas, Islas Canarias -
 Spain
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Las Palmas-Gando Air Base (LPA/GCLP) |
The C-54 transport plane ditched five minutes before it scheduled to land at Las Palmas. The floating aircraft and eleven survivors were located the next morning. Three occupants remained missing.
The airplane was en route from Angola to Lisbon, Portugal. Las Palmas was a planned refueling stop.
Sources:
Passauer Neue Presse 24 January 1963, p3
Scramble
El Litoral 23-1-1963
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