ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335226
Date: | Friday 27 November 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | Fairchild C-119C-26-FA Flying Boxcar |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 51-2621 |
MSN: | 10610 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 4 km NE of Paris-Orly Airport (ORY) -
France
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Terceira-Lajes AFB, Azores (TER/LPLA) |
Destination airport: | Paris-Orly Airport (ORY/LFPO) |
Narrative:Structural failure and crashed in flames in the Choisy-le-Roi neighbourhood of Paris, France.
The airplane was being ferried from Dover, Delaware, USA to Frankfurt, Germany with en route stops at the Azores Islands and Paris-Orly.
It appeared the rear clam shell doors departed the aircraft striking the horizontal stabilizer, causing a catastrophic failure of the empennage.
Sources:
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher Youngstown Vindicator - Nov 27, 1953 Revision history:
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