Lockheed 1049H N6921C

15 March 1962 · Missing Aircraft, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes · Fatal

Summary

On 15 March 1962, a Lockheed 1049H registered N6921C, operated by Flying Tiger Line, Inc., was involved in an accident during unknown/not reported near Missing Aircraft, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes. 107 people were on board and 107 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 15 March 1962
Classification: Accident
Location: Missing Aircraft, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed 1049H
Registration: N6921C
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Flying Tiger Line, Inc.
Phase of flight: Unknown/Not Reported
Route: Agana Nas, Guam → Clark Afb, Pi
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0002

People

107 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
107	107	0	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

UNDET DUE TO LACK OF EVIDENCE. ACFT DMG AND INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 1-0002, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

Also in

Pacific Ocean North Latitudes 50 Flying Tiger Line, Inc. 30 Lockheed 1049 28 1962 72

Other Lockheed 1049 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
14 Dec 1962	Lockheed 1049H N6913C	No.hollywood, California, United States no coordinates	Flying Tiger Line, Inc.	Fatal	5
15 Mar 1962	Lockheed 1049H N6911C	Adak, Alaska, United States no coordinates	Flying Tiger Line, Inc.	Fatal	1
23 Sep 1962	Lockheed 1049H N6923C	No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Flying Tiger Line, Inc.	Fatal	28
28 May 1962	Lockheed 1049 N6213C	New York, New York, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
3 Feb 1963	Lockheed 1049H N9740Z	San Francisco, California, United States no coordinates	Slick Airways, Inc.	Fatal	4
28 May 1963	Lockheed 1049G N189S	Manhattan, Kansas, United States no coordinates	Standard Airways, Inc.	Serious injuries	-

All 28 records for this type

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
11 Apr 1964	Lockheed PV2 N375TM	Hilo Hawaii, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
14 Sep 1964	Douglas DC8F N109RD	Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	Riddle Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
28 Mar 1964	Douglas DC-4 N4726V	North Pacific Ocn, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	-	Fatal	9
5 May 1966	Boeing 707 320C N363US	370E of Tokyo Jap, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	Northwest Airlines, Inc.	Minor injuries	-
30 Apr 1966	Boeing 707 349C N322F	Nor Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	Flying Tiger Line, Inc.	No injuries	-
26 Feb 1966	Mooney 20E N6069Q	Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes no coordinates	REA Internatio	Minor injuries	-

All 50 records in Pacific Ocean North Latitudes