Date: | Wednesday 6 November 1974 |
Time: | 14:35 |
Type: | NAMC YS-11A-320 |
Owner/operator: | Reeve Aleutian Airways |
Registration: | N172RV |
MSN: | 2172 |
Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | OT |
Location: | Anchorage International Airport, AK (ANC) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | - |
Departure airport: | - |
Destination airport: | - |
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Narrative:A fire, believed to have been caused by sparks from a welder's torch, broke out in a hangar at Anchorage International Airport, AK (ANC). The hangar was owned by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) part of which was leased by Reeve Aleutian Airways. The FAA lost one DC-3 plane in the fire (N76). Reeve lost a L-188PF Electra (N7140C) and an YS-11A (N172RV). It took fire fighters three hours to control the fire. The airport was closed for 1,5 hours.
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photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Anchorage International Airport, AK (ANC); May 1973
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