26
Mar
Convair CV-240-0 – N94273
Collided with a steel tower (96 feet high) while on the second ILS approach. The aircraft crashed in a railroad yard, skidded across tr...
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
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...
26
Mar
Douglas C-53B (DC-3) – N49553
The DC-3 was on a training flight, practicing takeoffs and landings at Martinsburg. Following a single-engine approach to runway 08 the...
26
Mar
Convair CV-240-2 – N90670
The aircraft, on a VOR instrument approach to runway 24, suddenly entered a heavy fog bank. The crew lost sight of the runway and groun...
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...