ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332435
| Date: | Saturday 12 February 1966 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-124C Globemaster II |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 52-0980 |
| MSN: | 43889 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-4360-20WA |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 28 km SE of Granada -
 Spain
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Morón Air Base (OZP/LEMO) |
| Murcia-San Javier Airport (MJV/LELC) |
A Douglas C-124C Globemaster II military transport plane was sent from its home base Hunter AFB, GA to Spain. It was transporting two buses for a search mission on the southern Spanish coast. A search party was looking for a U.S. nuclear bomb that came down following the mid-air collision of a B-52G bomber and a KC-135 tanker plane.
The Globemaster went missing on a flight from Morón Air Base, Spain to Murcia-San Javier Airport (MJV). The wreckage was later discovered on the side of 11,423-foot Pico Mulhacen in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Sources:
US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
Herald-Journal - Feb 15, 1966
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