CP-23

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

Safety history

  • December 12, 1961AccidentHull loss

    The airplane left Chièvres Airbase with a second C-119 registered CP-25 for a local combined training exercise. While flying in the vicinity of the airfield, both aircraft collided and crashed in a field located in Montignies-lez-Lens, some 6 km east of the airbase. Both aircraft were destroyed and all 13 crew members were killed. Crew CP-23: Cpt Jules Gerard, Cpt Albert Vermeerbergen, Cdt André Bolle, Adj Gilbert Deneef, S/Maj David Vandemeersche Crew CP-25: Sgt José Decaigny, Adj Alfred Doncki

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