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| Date: | Saturday 1 February 1958 |
| Time: | 19:13 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-118A (DC-6) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 53-3277 |
| MSN: | 44648/602 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 41 / Occupants: 41 |
| Other fatalities: | 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Norwalk, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Long Beach Municipal Airport, CA (LGB/KLGB) |
| Wrightstown-McGuire AFB, NJ (WRI/KWRI) |
A USAF Douglas C-118A transport plane (53-3277, msn 44648/602) departed Long Beach Airport, California at 19:08 for a flight to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. While climbing under VFR the aircraft collided with a US Navy Lockheed P2V-5F Neptune (127723). The Neptune had just departed from Los Alamitos for a training flight. The C-118 disintegrated and crashed through the roof of a service station. The Neptune crashed into an excavated clay pit on Norwalk Boulevard. Two occupants from the Neptune survived the accident.
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