- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | February 01, 1958 |
Time: | 1915 |
Location: | Norwalk, California |
Operator: | Military - U.S. Air Force / Military - U.S. Navy |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Long Beach - McGuire AFB |
AC Type: | Douglas C-118A / Lockheed P2V-5F |
Registration: | 53-3277A/127723 |
cn / ln: | 44622/ |
Aboard: | 41 (passengers:35 crew:6) |
Fatalities: | 41 (passengers:35 crew:6) |
Ground: | 1 |
Summary: | The two aircraft collided at an altitude of 3,000 feet scattering wreckage over a residential and business area of suburban Los Angeles. The C-118 had just taken off from Long Beach Municipal Airport on a transcontinental flight and the P2V was on an instrument training exercise. All 41 killed on the C-118A, six on the P2V and one woman on the ground who was hit by debris outside her house. Pilot error, pilots of both aircraft. |
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