Incident Overview
Date: Sunday 22 January 1961
Aircraft Type: Lockheed WV-2 Super Constellation
Owner/operator: United States Navy
Registration Number: 143193
Location: Midway Island-Sand Island Field (MDY) –
ÿ U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 22
Component Affected: Main mountMain mount
Category: Accident
An aircraft experienced a catastrophic failure during a return from an aborted barrier mission, resulting in a series of fatal injuries. The aircraft collided with a seawall debris, causing a sheared-off main mount, subsequent cartwheeling, slide into a Crash Crew Truck, explosion, and subsequent burning. All three occupants of the truck perished.An aircraft experienced a catastrophic failure during a return from an aborted barrier mission, resulting in a series of fatal injuries. The aircraft collided with a seawall debris, causing a sheared-off main mount, subsequent cartwheeling, slide into a Crash Crew Truck, explosion, and subsequent burning. All three occupants of the truck perished.
Description
While returning from aborted barrier mission, the aircraft hit seawall debris at end of the short runway. The main mount was sheared off and it cartwheeled, slid into a Crash Crew Truck, exploded and burned. All 3 inside the truck also suffered fatal injuries.
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Failed main mount and catastrophic structural failure during a return from an aborted barrier mission.Failed main mount and catastrophic structural failure during a return from an aborted barrier mission.Share on:
