Date: | Thursday 22 August 1968 |
Time: | |
Type: | Convair CV-600 |
Owner/operator: | East Coast Leasing |
Registration: | N278E |
MSN: | 32 |
Year of manufacture: | 1952 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | OT |
Location: | Martinsburg Airport, WV (MRB) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | - |
Departure airport: | - |
Destination airport: | - |
Narrative:An unused hangar at Martinsburg Airport, WV (MRB) was used to store 5000 bales of hay. Early in the morning a fire started, destroying the hangar and one Convair plane of East Coast Leasing (N278E). Another plane (CV-240 N91239) sustained fire damage to the wheels and other possible heat damages.
CV-600 N278E was sold to Ross S. Liscomb and broken up at Dupage.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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