Date:	Tuesday 13 January 1959
Time:
Type:	Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando
Owner/operator:	California Air Freight
Registration:	N1240N
MSN:	22404
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Panther Peak, CA -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR)
Destination airport:	Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, WA (SEA/KSEA)

Narrative:
The aircraft crashed into the ridge of a mountain range (Panther Peak) at an altitude of 8600 feet msl, located 45 miles to the right of the airway. The minimum safe altitude for the direct route Burbank-Seattle is 14500 feet compared to 8500 feet over the airway route.

Madera Tribune 15 January 1959, p1
Madera Tribune Wednesday 14 January 1959, p1

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