ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336075
Date: | Wednesday 27 September 1950 |
Time: | |
Type: | Curtiss C-46D-20-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | Civil Air Transport |
Registration: | XT-862 |
MSN: | 22351 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Iwakuni MCAS -
Japan
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Iwakuni MCAS (IWK/RJOI) |
Narrative:After landing at Iwakuni, Japan, the copilot inadvertently opened the right throttle and left cowl flap instead of both cowl flaps. The aircraft veered off the runway onto rough ground. The undercarriage collapsed.
Some parts were salvaged for spares.
Sources:
CAT, Air Asia, Air Americathe Company on Taiwan I: Structure and Development / Dr. Joe F. Leeker, 2015 Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia / William M. Leary
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