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Douglas DC-6B of Swiss airline Balair in 1976. The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. . Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range commercial transport
The aircraft involved was a Douglas DC-6B, registration N37559. It had accumulated a total of 11,949 flight hours at the time of the crash. It was powered by four Pratt & Whitney CB-16 R-2800 engines. The crew consisted of Captain Lee H. Hall (age 41), First Officer Donald A. White (26), Flight Engineer Samuel F. Arthur (38) and two ...
The crash killed all 21 passengers and crew on board. Aircraft. The Douglas DC-6B, construction number 43556 and line number 257, was ...
The aircraft was a Douglas DC-6B, c/n 43559/251, registered in Sweden as SE-BDY, first flown in 1952 and powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-2800 18-cylinder radial piston engines. [9] It was flown by captain Per Hallonquist (35), first officer Lars Litton (29) and flight engineer Nils Göran Wilhelmsson.
The Douglas DC-6B plane crashed near 100 Mile House, British Columbia, taking the lives of all 52 aboard. [1] [2] An inquest determined that the explosion was the result of a bomb, but the crime remains unsolved. [1]
National Airlines Flight 2511 was a United States domestic passenger flight from New York City to Miami, Florida.On January 6, 1960, the Douglas DC-6 serving the flight exploded in midair.
Olympic Airways Flight 954 was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft that crashed into a mountain near Keratea (approx. coordinates 37°48' N, 23°57' E), Greece, on December 8, 1969. All 85 passengers and 5 crew on board died in the crash.
The Mt. Alcazaba Union de Transports Aériens Douglas DC-6 crash was an accident involving a Douglas DC-6B of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens into Mt. Alcazaba near Granada, Andalusia, Spain, on 2 October 1964, killing all 80 people on board. [1]