ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334534
Date: | Tuesday 26 February 1957 |
Time: | 10:45 |
Type: | Douglas C-47D (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 43-49792 |
MSN: | 27053/15608 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Fukuoka -
Japan
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:A USAF Douglas C-47D transport plane collided with a North American F-100 Super Sabre fighter above Fukuoka City. Two civilian were houses destroyed.
The F-100 pilot managed to land safely at Itazuke Air Base.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
The Aviation Forum thread [Accident Report] JASDF aircraft accidents in 1965 to 2005 in Japan The Times-News - Feb 26, 1957 Location
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