Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 DEC 1971 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada C-7A Caribou |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 62-4173 |
| C/n / msn: | 112 |
| First flight: | 1963 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 48 km (30 mls) W off San Francisco, CA, USA (Pacific Ocean) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Sacramento-McClellan AFB, CA (MCC/KMCC), United States of America |
Ditched off the Farallon Islands while on a ferry flight back to the U.S.
Events:
Sources:
» DeHavilland Caribou Roster
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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.
