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| Date: | Friday 23 March 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-124A Globemaster II |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 49-244 |
| MSN: | 43173 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 53 / Occupants: 53 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 725 km W off Shannon, Ireland -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Limestone-Loring AFB, ME (LIZ) |
| Lakenheath RAF Station (LKZ/EGUL) |
The Globemaster transport plane had left Limestone AFB for a transatlantic flight to Lakenheath, UK. The last message received by Shannon Aeradio was a revised Estimated Time of Arrival for the destination, which was passed at 01:06. A rescue operation was started when the crew did not make their next routine position report. Only a few small pieces of wreckage were found 450 miles off the west coast of Ireland.
Sources:
Irish Aviation website
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Don Wagner; Lakenheath RAF Station (LKZ/EGUL); January 1951; (CC:by-sa)
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