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| Date: | Tuesday 15 January 1957 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-118A (DC-6) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 53-3263 |
| MSN: | 44634/572 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Other |
| Location: | Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
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A fire broke out at McChord AFB, causing the destruction of two maintenance hangars. A Douglas C-118 (53-3263) and a Douglas C-124C Globemaster II (52-1027) were destroyed. Two other planes, a Lockheed T-33 jet and a de Havilland Canada L-20 Beaver were damaged.
Sources:
Destruction at air base (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, 1957-01-16)
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