• 20 January 1954: Zantop Flying Service
DC-3 N49551 headed to
Fairfax Municipal Airport in Kansas City from
Jackson, Michigan crashed near
Kansas City Municipal Airport (close to Fairfax). Probable cause was loss of control due to an accumulation of ice and the use of de-ice boots, which increases stall speed. The three on board, all crew, perished. • 16 December 1956:
Curtiss C-46A N2028A encountered thick fog as it made a VFR approach to
Long Beach, California from El Paso, landing short. All four on board survived, but the aircraft was a writeoff. • 14 November 1961:
Douglas DC-4 N30061—destruction of the aircraft but no fatalities. • 16 February 1963:
Curtiss C-46F N616Z,
Logair flight 60-16, crashed in a pasture in
Puyallup, Washington after a one-engine go-around following an attempted emergency landing at a small airport. The crew, the only ones on board, survived, severely injured. The pilot was cited for mismanaging the malfunctioning engine, but a contributing factor was air traffic control's failure to notify the crew of the limitations of the small airport, leading them to attempt an emergency landing there rather than at a more suitable airport. • 7 December 1963:
Curtiss C-46A N609Z on a
Logair flight disappeared enroute from
Lowry Air Force Base in Denver to
Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah on an Air Force Logair flight. The wreckage was not found until July 1964. The aircraft had flown into a mountain at 12,500 ft elevation. The accident report cited improper planning and poor judgement on behalf of the crew. • 20 November 1964:
Curtiss C-46A N3971B crashed on takeoff from
Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a flight bound for
Wilmington, Delaware due to inadequate de-icing. The aircraft was destroyed but the crew suffered only minor injuries. • 30 December 1964:
Curtiss C-46A N608Z suffered loss of control during a night IFR approach to
Detroit Metropolitan Airport on a flight from
Cleveland Airport for an undetermined reason. The accident report noted it was consistent with sudden incapacitation by the highly experienced captain with an attempted recovery by the first officer, but post-mortem of the captain did not find evidence of a heart-attack or similar. The aircraft was destroyed and four crew died. • 13 September 1965:
Curtiss C-46D N5132B had taken off from
Dover Air Force Base in
Delaware on a flight to
Philadelphia when it suffered the loss of an engine. The crew attempted to return to Dover but was forced down in a corn field. The crew of two, and a
Navy civilian employee passenger walked away, but the aircraft was a writeoff. • 14 October 1965:
Armstrong Whitworth AW.650 Argosy N601Z was on a
Logair flight from
Truax Air Force Base in
Madison, Wisconsin to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base when it ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing on
Interstate 75 near
Piqua, Ohio, north of
Dayton. The aircraft struck an overpass and was damaged beyond repair, but the crew of three was unharmed and no motorists were injured. The pilots were cited for improper fuel planning and management. See
External links for a photo of the aircraft that crashed. • 16 June 1966:
Curtiss C-46A N10415 collided with a Piper Aztec near
Columbia City, Indiana while on a flight from Detroit to Kansas City. The two pilot crew of the C-46 died, as did the single pilot in the Aztec. The investigation said neither aircraft had kept a sufficient lookout for traffic. • 28 July 1966:
Curtiss C-46A N9905F was substantially overweight for its flight to Chicago with autoparts when it lost an engine after takeoff from
Newark, New Jersey. The captain elected to land in mudflats in Newark Bay, avoiding nearby populated areas. While injured, the crew survived. The aircraft was a writeoff. ==See also==