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Safety history
January 18, 1943Accident
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
US military Authorities reported that at the time of the accident, whose causes remain unknown, weather conditions prevailing above the center of the Atlantic Ocean were marginal due to the presence of thick clouds and heavy rain falls. Full accident record