N90779 (Quicksilver MXL II) — accident record & aircraft history

Registrations are reused: the FAA register shows 3 earlier aircraft with this mark, the last registration cancelled on March 4, 2003.

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

September 19, 1960Accident
On September 19, 1960, at approximately 0602 local time, a Douglas DC-6AB, N 90779, operated by World Airways, Inc., as Military Air Transport Flight 830/18, bound for Wake Island and the United States. crashed and burned on Mt. Barrigada approximately two nautical miles from the departure end of runway 6L, Agana Naval Air Station, Guam, Mariana Islands.
Douglas DC-6 · 80 fatalities
The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the failure of the pilot to comply with published departure procedures applicable to runways 6 left and 6 right. Full accident record