ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336377
Date: | Saturday 9 July 1949 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar |
Owner/operator: | Fairbanks Morse and Company |
Registration: | NC10000 |
MSN: | 18-2569 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 1,6 km W of Roanoke, IL -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Executive |
Departure airport: | Chicago (unknown airport), IL |
Destination airport: | Saint Louis-Lambert International Airport, MO (STL/KSTL) |
Narrative:The corporate Lodestar suffered an engine failure en route to St. Louis. The crew attempted to carry out a forced landing in a cornfield near Roanoke, but the airplane crashed and burned. The passenger that was killed in the accident was Charles H. Morse II, VP of the company.
Sources:
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Jul 10, 1949 The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
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