Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 23 MAY 1951 |
| Type: | Douglas C-124A Globemaster II |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 49-0232 |
| C/n / msn: | 43161 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 4 Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 12 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 12 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near New Lisbon, IN (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military test |
| Departure airport: | Dayton-Wright Patterson AFB, OH (FFO/KFFO), United States of America |
| ? |
During a service evaluation flight the crew was forced to carry out an emergency landing. While attempting to land in a corn field, the transport plane contacted a tree, crashed and caught fire.
Sources:
» US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
