Beechcraft C-18S N445

15 August 1966 · Anchorage, Alaska, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 15 August 1966 at about 18:45 local time, a Beechcraft C-18S registered N445, operated by NC Simonson, was involved in an accident during in flight near Anchorage, Alaska, United States. 4 people were on board and 4 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 15 August 1966 at 18:45
Classification: Accident
Location: Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft C-18S
Registration: N445
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: NC Simonson
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 2-1183

People

4 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
4	4	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

FATIGUE FRACTURES OCCURED ADJACENT TO LNDG GR SLIDE CLUSTER-RT WING. ACFT WAS PROPERLY MAINTAINED.

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 2-1183, 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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