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| Date: | Tuesday 5 August 1952 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Convair B-36D-25-CF Peacemaker |
| Owner/operator: | AMC USAF |
| Registration: | 49-2661 |
| MSN: | 121 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 3.5mi off Mission Beach, San Diego, CA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Consolidated-Vultee Corp., San Diego, CA |
| Consolidated-Vultee Corp., San Diego, CA |
The B-36 had been modified for the "San-San" project at the Convair plant in San Diego and was on a shakedown flight with a test crew of eight Convair employees over the San Diego Bay when the #5 engine caught fire and fell off after the fire spread to the rest of the wing. Seven crew members bailed out while the pilot David H. Franks stayed with the aircraft to steer it away from the populated coast, but apparently failed to leave before it crashed into the sea and was killed. The first flight engineer W.W. Hoffman drowned. Four of the six survivors (co-pilot R.W. Adkins, flight engineer Kenneth Rogers, W.F. Ashmore, Roy E. Sommers, D.R. Maxion and W.E. Wilson) received minor injuries.
Sources:
http://www.air-and-space.com/b-36%20wrecks.htm#49-2661
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_%281950%E2%80%931954%29
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Jan-2013 03:09 | Tetrapack | Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
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