26
Mar
Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando – N7840B
An unguarded light bulb came into contact with combustible cargo in the aft lower cargo compartment causing a fire. The fire penetrated...
26
Mar
Vickers 745D Viscount – N7463
Capital Airlines Flight 75 taxied away from the New York-La Guardia Airport terminal at 15:20, twenty minutes late. The Vickers Viscoun...
26
Mar
Lockheed L-049E-46 Constellation – N2735A
Capital flight 983 touched down on the Charleston runway 32. The captain found braking to be ineffective and chose to groundloop the ai...
26
Mar
Douglas DC-6B – N575
The aircraft crashed on takeoff. Fire broke out following the evacuation of the plane. PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's inattention to fli...
26
Mar
Vickers 724 Viscount – CF-TGL
A Seaboard & Western Airlines Super Constellation (N6503C) was taking off from New York runway 31R when it became uncontrollable. T...
26
Mar
Lockheed L-1049D Super Constellation – N6503C
Seaboard & Western Airlines Super Constellation "Paris Airtrader" was taking off from New York runway 31R when it became uncontroll...
26
Mar
Douglas DC-3A-197B – N18941
The DC-3 departed Nashville for a flight to Knoxville and Tri-City with an inoperative radio compass. This defect was not entered in th...
26
Mar
Vickers 745D Viscount – N7437
Capital Airlines flight 67, a Vickers Viscount, crashed following a loss of control due to icing while on approach to Freeland-Tri City...
26
Mar
Douglas DC-7 – N6328C
United Airlines flight 736, a Douglas DC-7, crashed following a mid-air collision with a USAF North American F-100F Super Sabre near Ar...
26
Mar
Vickers 745D Viscount – N7410
Viscount N7410 was descending en route from Pittsburgh to Baltimore on an IFR flight plan, but in VFR conditions. An Air National Guard...