26
Mar
Lockheed WV-3 Super Constellation – 137893
The Lockheed WV-3 Super Constellation, BuNo 137893, took off from Guam at 06:00 in the morning of September 1956 on a weather recon mis...
26
Mar
Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar – 52-5891
The Boxcar transport plane suffered a runaway propeller en route over the Pacific Ocean. The crew were not able to feather the prop and...
26
Mar
Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune – 128357
The Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune was shot down by Soviet fighter airplanes. The aircraft operated on a routine patrol mission over the Sea o...
26
Mar
Martin P5M-1 Marlin – 126511
Both engines failed over sea. The Marlin flying boat broke up during a deadstick landing in open sea.
26
Mar
Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina – 64089
Crashed and broke up in rough seas north of Midway Island when it force landed due to fuel exhaustion. Crew rescued by ship.
26
Mar
Douglas R5D-1 (DC-4) – N229A
DC-4 N229A departed Travis AFB at 22:20 PST for a flight to Honolulu; cruising altitude 8000 feet. At 01:55 PST the no. 4 engine backfi...
26
Mar
Lockheed P2V-3 Neptune – 122972
The Lockheed P2V-3 Neptune ditched at night in bad weather during a weather reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrol mission due to a r...
26
Mar
26
Mar
Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) – KN240
The Dakota had departed Singapore on a flight to Hong Kong and Saigon. Over the South China Sea something went wrong, causing the plane...
26
Mar
Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina – 64028
Forced landing during flight from Kwajalein to Johnston Island. The crew rescued by a Navy ship nine hours after the landing. which san...