List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1962
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3A that occurred in 1962, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2. Military accidents are included; and hijackings and incidents of terrorism are covered, although acts of war involving military aircraft are outside the scope of this list.
January
- January 25: Montana Gov. Donald Grant Nutter was en route to a speaking engagement in Cut Bank, Montana when the C-47 Skytrain he was a passenger in crashed. Winds exceeding 100 mph sheared off one of the wings of the plane, causing the aircraft to go down in Wolf Creek Canyon north of Helena. Also killed in the crash were Dennis Gordon, his executive secretary; Edward Wren, commissioner of agriculture; and three members of the Montana Air National Guard: Maj. Clifford Hanson, Maj. Joseph Devine and Master Sgt. Charles Ballard.
April
- April 18: A Douglas DC-3 operated by an aviation company affiliated with Purdue University, registration number N3588, crashed immediately after taking off from Dallas Love Field, Dallas, Texas, USA, to test a newly installed engine. The craft exploded into flames, killing all three people aboard.[2][3] The crash was attributed to insufficient airspeed at takeoff, and the National Transportation Safety Board noted that the pilot was not properly qualified to fly a DC-3.[4]
May
- May 6: A C47 converted for passenger use (registered G-AGZB), operated by Channel Airways, crashed at St Boniface Down near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK. It was en route from Jersey in the Channel Isles to Portsmouth on the south coast of England. Thick fog and lack of navigational aids resulted in the pilot losing his way on a route with which he was unfamiliar. The crew of three were killed as were nine of the 14 passengers, the remaining five being seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed.
August
- August 25: A Douglas C-47A-30-DL operated by JAT and registered as YU-ABH, crashed on Mt. Prenj (28 km north of Mostar Airport). All 32 occupants survived, but the aircraft was destroyed by a post crash fire.[5]
References
- Berry 1971, p. 26
- Staff writers (1962-04-19). "2 Killed in Love Field Air Crash". The Dallas Morning News.
- Staff writers (1962-04-20). "Burns Fatal to Victim of Crash". The Dallas Morning News.
- "NTSB Report FTW62A0028". National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- "Crash of a Douglas C-47A-30-DL near Mostar". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives.
- Peter Berry, ed. (1971). The Douglas Commercial Story. Air-Britain Historians.
Notes
^Note A Military versions of the DC-3 were known as C-47 Skytrain, C-48, C-49, C-50, C-51, C-52, C-53 Skytrooper, C-68, C-84, C-117 Super Dakota and YC-129 by the United States Army Air Forces and as the R4D by the United States Navy. In Royal Air Force (and other British Commonwealth air forces') service, these aircraft were known as Dakotas.
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