What the records say
- When
- 7 Jun 1949
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 18.47° N, 66.20° W
- Description
- airplane crash in 1949 in Puerto Rico, US
- Deaths
- 53
1949 Strato-Freight Curtiss C-46A crash
Airplane crash in 1949 in Puerto Rico
On June 7, 1949, a Strato-Freight Curtiss Wright C-46D, registered in the United States as NC92857, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 10 km (6.4 mi) west of San Juan-Isla Grande Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico while en route to Miami, Florida. Of the 81 passengers and crew on board, 53 were killed.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “при вынужденном приводнении у берегов Пуэрто-Рико разбился Curtiss-Wright C-46D-5-CU, погибли 53 человека”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page