53-0393
We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
Safety history
- September 17, 1956Accident
En route, the aircraft caught fire, apparently on a wing. The crew elected to return to his base but control was lost. Two crew members were able to bail out and were later recovered while all five other occupants were killed when the airplane crashed along Highway 99, about 9 miles southeast of Madera. Those killed were: Cpt Leroy Campbell, navigator, Cpt G. Dick Richardson, radar operator, M/Sgt John T. Brown, flight engineer, T/Sgt Raymond B. Biggs, tail gunner, T/Sgt Harvey Fullbright, fligh