Airplane Crash - Atlantiocean Off Florida 06/05/1950
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - AtlantiOcean off Florida
Date | 06/05/1950 |
Time | 22:03 |
Location | AtlantiOcean off Florida |
Operator | Westair Transport |
Route | San Juan - Wilmington NC |
Type | Curtiss C-46-F-1-CU |
Registration | N1248N |
Cn/In | 22496 |
Aboard | 65 |
Fatalities | 28 |
Ground | 0 |
Summary | Ditched into the Atlanti300 miles east of Melbourne, Florida on a flight from San Juan, Porto Rico to Wilmington, North Carolina due to failure of both engines. It sank in one of the deepest areas of the Atlantiand could not be recovered. Failure of both engines for reasons unknown. |
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