Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 MAY 1961 |
| Time: | 02:33 |
| Type: | Douglas C-124A-DL Globemaster II |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 51-0174 |
| C/n / msn: | 43508 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 4 Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 16 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 22 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | S of Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM/KTCM), United States of America |
| Lawton Municipal Airport, OK (LAW), United States of America |
The C-124 transport plane was returning men who had participated in Exercise Lava Plains at Yakima, WA. It carried an additional truck, jeep and two trailers.
The airplane crashed shortly after takeoff.
Sources:
» US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
» The Spokesman-Review - May 24, 1961
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Distance from Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA to Lawton Municipal Airport, OK as the crow flies is 2426 km (1516 miles).
Distance from Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA to Lawton Municipal Airport, OK as the crow flies is 2426 km (1516 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.
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