Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 02 APR 1955 |
| Type: | Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando |
| Operator: | Aaxico Airlines |
| Registration: | N51424 |
| C/n / msn: | 30430 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Pensacola, FL (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM/KBFM), United States of America |
| Warner Robins AFB, GA (WRB/KWRB), United States of America |
The C-46 crashed into the sea while flying through an area with thunderstorm activity and turbulence.
Events:
Sources:
» St. Petersburg Times - Apr 4, 1955
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL to Warner Robins AFB, GA as the crow flies is 476 km (298 miles).
Distance from Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL to Warner Robins AFB, GA as the crow flies is 476 km (298 miles).
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.
