Hull-loss description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 22 NOV 1962 |
| Type: | Douglas R4D-8 |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 17188 |
| C/n / msn: | 43384 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1820-80 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Sentinel Ridge (Antarctica) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Sentinel Ridge, Antarctica | |
| Flightnumber: | - |
Its ski landing gear collapsed on landing.
Sources:
» A history of the famous vx-6 squadron's aviators. The men who flew the frozen continent and the polar ice cap 1955-1999 / By Noel Gillespie
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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.
