Accident description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 04 MAY 1970 |
| Type: | Convair T-29D (CV-240) |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 52-5822 |
| C/n / msn: | 52-21 |
| First flight: | 1954 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 10 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 14 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 13 km (8.1 mls) NE of Hamilton AFB, CA (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | San Rafael-Hamilton Field, CA (SRF), United States of America |
| Spokane-Fairchild AFB, WA (SKA/KSKA), United States of America |
Clipped a haze-shrouded ridge and crashed.
Sources:
» USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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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.
