54-2682

We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.

Safety history

  • August 10, 1959AccidentHull loss

    While on a training mission from Westover AFB, the crew encountered technical problems after the radome detached in flight. The captain elected to divert to the nearest airport but due to poor weather conditions, ATC vectored the crew to Goose Bay, about 860 miles northeast of his position. As he could not make it, the crew decided to bail out and abandoned the aircraft that dove into the ground and crashed in the Spruce swamp located near Fremont. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all ei

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