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- Code Number:
- TAEV01P05_06
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N82FA, Douglas C-54G, DC-4, Chester Air Attack Base, Firefighting Airtanker, Tanker-161
- CN: 35960
LN: 354 First flight: 1945 Total airframe hours: 28933 Engines: 4x Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7M2 Accident Report: Status: Final Date: 17/01/2007 Time: 15:50 Operator: Brooks Air Fuel Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 Airplane damage: Written off Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: 8 kilometers (5 miles) West of Nenana, Alaska (USA) Phase: En route (ENR) Nature: Air Cargo Departure airport: Fairbanks International Airport, Alaska (FAI/PAFA), USA Destination airport: Nixon Fork Mine, Alaska, USA Descriptive: C-54 N82FA departed Fairbanks, carrying 3000 gallons of heating fuel for the Nixon Fork Mine. En route the nr.2 engine started running rough. The pilot elected to shut it down and return to Fairbanks. During the shutdown procedure, the engine caught fire. The fire extinguishing system was activated. The crew attempted to divert to Nenana Municipal Airport, Alaska (ENN), but a forced gear-up landing had to be carried out in the tundra. The left aircraft wing was overwhelmed by fire. PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of an engine cylinder during cruise flight, which resulted in an in-flight fire, and subsequent emergency gear-up landing on snow-covered tundra. A factor in the accident was the failure of the fire suppression equipment to extinguish the fire." Location of this image: Rogers Field, Chester, Plumas County, California Lat: N 4016.9 Long: W 12114.5 Elev: 4528 feet Var: -17 Longest Runway: 5320 feet CTAF: 122.8
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Rogers Field Airport, Chester, Plumas County, California, USA, Douglas, DC-4, Piston, four engine, Prop, Propeller, Fixed wing multi engine, multi-engine, Reciprocating, Propliner, Fire Bomber, Aerial Firefighting, Fire Suppression, Civil, Aviation, Civilian, fire fighting, Emergency, hull, equipment, Apparatus, Airtanker, Airtak
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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