ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335690
Date: | Saturday 5 January 1952 |
Time: | 17:30 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 42-100912 |
MSN: | 19375 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 10 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Burtonwood RAF Station (BUT) -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Burtonwood RAF Station (BUT/EGOB) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:A Lockheed P2V-2 Neptune (122443) operated by the United States Navy undershot the runway during a hot landing at RAF Burtonwood and collided with a USAF Douglas C-47 (42-100912). One crew member on the Neptune and Six others on the C-47 were killed. Fifteen others were injured, 11 on the Neptune and 4 on the C-47.
Sources:
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher Accident-Report.com
Chicago Tribune, 6-1-1952 Revision history:
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