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| Date: | Sunday 25 November 1962 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas LC-47H |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 50777 |
| MSN: | 26378/14933 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Davis Glacier -
 Antarctica
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Davis Glacier |
The ski-equipped LC-47 was making a jet assisted takeoff when a JATO canister was released accidentally before it stopped firing, hitting the aircraft's propeller. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
Sources:
Youngstown Vindicator 26 November 1962, p4
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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