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  2. United Air Lines Flight 629 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-6

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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

  4. 1964 Mt. Alcazaba Union de Transports AĆ©riens Douglas DC-6 crash

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    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]

  5. Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden DC-6 crash - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Douglas DC-6 - Wikipedia

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    The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, Douglas reworked it after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range commercial transport market.

  8. DC plane crash latest: Officials have recovered and ... - AOL

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    Trump won't visit Washington DC plane crash site because it's 'the water' Families visit site of crash in Washington, D.C. Sunday 2 February 2025 22:00, Katie Hawkinson.

  9. 1956 Cairo TAI Douglas DC-6 crash - Wikipedia

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    Next to the fact that there were several ravines and that it was a hilly path to reach the crash site, the rescue vehicles were affected by a severe sandstorm. [2] [3] [4] Two Piper J-3 Cub airplanes of the national petroleum society were used to transport doctors, nurses and medication to the crash site and to transport injured people to Cairo ...