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| Date: | Friday 4 April 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-124A Globemaster II |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 50-1260 |
| MSN: | 43282 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 9 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 9 km N of Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM/KBFM) |
| Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM/KBFM) |
Mid-air collision at night between Douglas VC-47D 45-926 and Douglas C-124A-DL Globemaster II 50-1260. Both aircraft spun down, crashing on top of parked railroad box cars and bursting into flames.
The VC-47 operated on a flight from Brookley AFB to Maxwell AFB while the Globemaster operated on a local flight out of Brookley AFB.
Sources:
Toledo Blade - Apr 5, 1952
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
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