Douglas C-54 Skymaster

Following an uneventful flight from Saigon via Pleiku, the crew started the descent to Đà Nẵng in marginal weather conditions. The visibility was relatively limited due to clouds. On final, the DC-4 was cleared to land on runway 17L. At the same time, the crew of a USAF F4E Phantom II registered 67-0393 was approaching runway 17R when he was contacted by ATC and also cleared to land. The crew of the DC-4 understood this message was dedicated to him so the captain made a turn to the right to join the runway 17R approach path. Doing so in limited visibility, he failed to see the Phantom that was approaching from his right side. Both airplane collided and while the Phantom was able to land, the Skymaster entered a dive and crashed in a huge explosion in a rice paddy field located about three km from the runway threshold. Two passengers were seriously injured while 75 other occupants and two people on the ground were killed. Two other people working in the field were also injured.

Crashed while taking off from Uli Airstrip, Biafra. The four crew members were rescued while the aircraft was destroyed. The exact cause of the accident remains unclear but unconfirmed report stated that the crew took off from the wrong runway according to existing conditions.

Upon landing at China Lake AFB, the nose gear collapsed. The airplane slid for several yards before coming to rest. There were no casualties.

During the takeoff roll on runway 26, at an IAS of 61 knots, the pilot-in-command lost control of the airplane that swerved. It veered off runway to the left, hit several obstacles, went down an embankment, broke into several parts and came to rest in flames by the Route Nationale 7. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire and all three crew members were injured.

The nose gear collapsed upon landing at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão and the airplane came to rest. There were no injuries but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Belly landed at Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, slid for few dozen meters and came to rest. There were no casualties but the aircraft was written off.

The four engine aircraft was performing a charter flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt, carrying 53 passengers, a crew of four and a load of ammunitions. The approach to Port Harcourt Airport was initiated by night and despite the fact that the pilot had the runway in sight, he failed to realize his altitude was too low when the left wing struck two trees. The airplane stalled and crashed in flames onto houses located few km short of runway. None of 57 occupants survived the crash and one person on the ground was also killed. Following the accident, huge explosions occurred as the aircraft was carrying a load of ammunitions.

On final approach to Bedford-Hanscom Field AFB, the crew failed to realize his altitude was too low when the airplane struck trees, stalled and crashed in flames in a wooded area located less than a mile from the runway threshold. All three crew members were seriously injured and the aircraft was destroyed by a post crash fire.

While cruising at an altitude of 12,000 feet on a flight from Buckley AFB, Denver, and Seattle, the navigator informed ATC about difficulties to maintain the assigned altitude and was cleared to descend to 10,500 feet. Few minutes later, the copilot reported icing conditions to ATC and requested the permission to gain altitude. About 20 minutes later, while cruising at the altitude of 10,000 feet in marginal weather conditions, the four engine airplane struck the slope of Mt Tobin (2,980 meters high). The wreckage was found few hours later about 300 meters below the summit and all 19 occupants have been killed.

Few minutes after takeoff from Huánuco-Alferez David Figueroa Fernandini Airport, while climbing to an altitude of 10,000 feet, the airplane struck the slope of a mountain located in the Montañas de Carpish Mountain Range, some 50 km north of Huánuco. The wreckage was found few hours later about 30 meters below the summit. The aircraft was destroyed and all 67 occupants were killed, among them 45 Peruvians, 5 French, 2 Britons ,5 Italians, 2 Belgians and 8 US citizens. They were on their way to the Tingo Maria National Park located west of Las Palmas.