ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334491
Date: | Monday 22 April 1957 |
Time: | |
Type: | Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 52-5930 |
MSN: | 11109 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 4 km S of Yawata -
Japan
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Ashiya Air Base (RJFA) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The C-119 transport aircraft crashed in mountainous terrain near Yawata, Japan. A Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw search helicopter crashed in the same area, killing one of the three occupants.
Sources:
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Apr 22, 1957 Location
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