| Date: | Friday 17 August 1962 |
| Time: | 16:54 |
| Type: |  Howard Super Ventura |
| Owner/operator: | Borg-Warner Corp. |
| Registration: | N18A |
| MSN: | 5271 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Chicago-Merrill C Meigs Field, IL (CGX) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Chicago-Merrill C Meigs Field, IL (CGX/KCGX) |
| Chicago-Palwaukee Municipal Airport, IL (PWK/KPWK) |
The aircraft crashed into the harbour after an engine failure on takeoff from Chicago-Merrill C Meigs Field, Illinois, USA.
The flight crew had dropped off the President and a board member of Borg-Warner Corp.
Sources:
Chicago Daily Tribune Aug 18, 1962
The Lockheed Twins / P.J. Marsden
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