HK-730 — accident record & aircraft history

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Safety history

January 14, 1966AccidentHull loss
Shortly after takeoff from runway 36 at Cartagena-Crespo Airport, while climbing to a height of 70 feet, the airplane descended and crashed into the sea some 1,310 metres past the runway end. All four crew members and 52 passengers were killed while eight others were rescued. The aircraft was destroyed.
Douglas C-54 Skymaster · 56 fatalities
The accident was attributed to a maintenance error resulting from inadequate inspection periodic, daily, nightly and transit servicing and consisting in failure to notice the absence of a pin looseness and/or absence of a nut which joins the torsion links of the left landing gear. Full accident record