Lockheed L-1049 N6915C

24 December 1964 · San Francisco Cal, California, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 24 December 1964 at about 00:31 local time, a Lockheed L-1049 registered N6915C, operated by Flying Tiger Line, Inc., was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near San Francisco Cal, California, United States. 3 people were on board and 3 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 24 December 1964 at 00:31
Classification: Accident
Location: San Francisco Cal, California, United States
Nearest airport: San Francisco Int
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed L-1049
Registration: N6915C
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Flying Tiger Line, Inc.
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0064

People

3 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	3	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.

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PILOT-DEVIATED FROM COURSE FOR UNDETERMINED REASON

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 1-0064, 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.

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Other Lockheed L-1049 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
15 Jul 1964	Lockheed L-1049 N6223C	New York Ny, New York, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
20 Sep 1965	Lockheed L-1049 N9719C	Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States no coordinates	American Flyers Airline Corp.	No injuries	-
15 Dec 1965	Lockheed L-1049 N6914C	Alamosa, Colorado, United States no coordinates	Flying Tiger Line, Inc.	Fatal	3
29 Jan 1965	Lockheed L-1049 N4715G	Wilmington del, Delaware, United States no coordinates	Capitol Airways	No injuries	-
6 May 1966	Lockheed L-1049 N6211C	Hartford Conn, Connecticut, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
10 Aug 1962	Lockheed L-1049 N7121C	Clark Afb, Other-Foreign Countries no coordinates	Trans-International Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-

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