Airplane Crash - Norwalk, California 02/01/1958
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Norwalk, California
| Date | 02/01/1958 |
| Time | 19:15 |
| Location | Norwalk, California |
| Operator | Military - U.S. Air Force / Military - U.S. Navy |
| Route | Long Beach - McGuire AFB |
| Type | Douglas C-118A / Lockheed P2V-5F |
| Registration | 53-3277A/127723 |
| Cn/In | 44622/ |
| Aboard | 49 |
| Fatalities | 47 |
| Ground | 1 |
| Summary | The two aircraft collided at an altitude of 3,000 feet scattering wreckage over a residential and business area of suburban Los Angeles. The C-118 had just taken off from Long Beach Municipal Airport on a transcontinental flight and the P2V was on an instrument training exercise. All 41 killed on the C-118A, six on the P2V and one woman on the ground who was hit by debris outside her house. Pilot error, pilots of both aircraft. |
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