Hull-loss description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 18 FEB 1967 |
| Type: | Douglas RC-47P |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-49679 |
| C/n / msn: | 15495/26940 |
| First flight: | 1945 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Saigon-Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN) (Vietnam) |
| Phase: | Standing (STD) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | - |
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The airplane was damaged beyond repair when it was struck by a China Airlines Curtiss C-46. The C-46 had just landed but swerved off the runway due to a brake failure.
Sources:
» US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
» Vietnam Air Losses : United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973 / Chris Hobson
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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.
