N229A
We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
Safety history
- March 27, 1953Accident
The four engine aircraft left Travis AFB at 2220LT on March 26 on a cargo flight to Honolulu, carrying one passenger and a crew of three. At 0155LT on March 27, while cruising at an altitude of 8,000 feet, the engine number four suffered a loss of hydraulic pressure and was shut down and its propeller was feathered. In such conditions, the captain decided to divert to San Francisco for a precautionary landing when, about an hour later, the manifold pressure of the engine number three dropped. Th