Crash of a Fairchild C-119C-26-FA Flying Boxcar in Choisy-le-Roi: 6 killed
Date & Time:
Nov 27, 1953
Registration:
51-2621
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Dover – Lajes – Paris – Frankfurt
MSN:
10610
YOM:
1951
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The crew was performing a ferry flight from Dover, Delaware, to Frankfurt-Main Airbase with intermediate stops in Lajes, Azores Islands, and Paris-Orly. On final approach, the airplane went out of control and crashed in flames in Choisy-le-Roi, less than four km from the runway threshold. All six occupants were killed.
Probable cause:
It is believed that the loss of control may have been caused by the loss of the rear clam shell door which detached on final approach and struck the horizontal stabilizer, causing the failure of the empennage and the subsequent crash of the airplane.