We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
While overflying the Atlantic Ocean at night, on the leg from Georgetown (Ascension Island) to Natal, while on a flight from Accra to Natal, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea around 2300LT. SAR operations were conducted for several days but eventually suspended as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. Two life vests were discovered on a Brazilian beach few days later. Crew: Cpt Orval Eknes, pilot, Cpt Felton B. Lancaster, copilot, 2nd Lt Joseph F. Peoples, nav
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express · 26 fatalities