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The aircraft was the Amana, [Note 2] a Douglas DC-4-1009 registered VH-ANA and the flagship of the Australian National Airways fleet. It flew for the first time on 28 January 1946 and was flown to Australia on 9 February 1946.
An Air Algérie DC-4 (7T-VAU) struck the side of a mountain near Tamanrasset Airport while flying too low, killing 35 of 39 on board. [157] 3 June 1967 An Air Ferry C-54A (G-APYK) crashed into Mont Canigou on a flight from Manston Airport, England to Perpignan, France. All 88 aboard were killed, the greatest fatalities of any DC-4 crash. 19 ...
26 June 1950, DC-4 VH-ANA Amana crashed near York, Western Australia killing all 29 on board (a passenger survived the immediate crash but later died of his injuries). The aircraft lost power on most engines and the crew had only just managed to stabilise fuel supply by isolating the "offending" cross-flow lines and regain power when they ran ...
June 26 – The Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 Amana crashes northwest of York, Western Australia, killing all 29 people on board. It is the second-deadliest aviation accident and deadliest civil aviation accident in Australian history at the time. June 27
1967 Air Ferry DC-4 accident; 1950 Air France multiple Douglas DC-4 accidents; 1946 American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crash; 1965 Argentine Air Force C-54 disappearance; Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 202; 1950 Australian National Airways Douglas DC-4 crash; 1947 Avianca Douglas DC-4 crash; Avianca Flight 03
The plane, a Douglas DC-4, smashed into the Tanana River near to the Fairbanks International Airport at around 10.40am local time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told The Independent ...
September 18 – In the 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden DC-6 crash, a Douglas DC-6B carrying Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, crashes near Ndola, killing all 16 on board. September 23 – Turkish Airlines Flight 835 , a Fokker F27 Friendship crashed while on approach to Esenboğa Airport; of the 29 on board, only a ...
The C-54 is a military version of the Douglas DC-4, which was a World War II-era airplane. The website www.airlines.net said standard passenger seating for a DC-4 was 44 during its heyday, but ...