What the records say
- When
- 22 Mar 1955
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 21.44° N, 158.10° W
- Description
- fatal crash due to pilot error
- Deaths
- 66
1955 Hawaii R6D-1 crash
Fatal crash due to pilot error
The 1955 Hawaii R6D-1 crash was an accident involving a Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster of the United States Navy which crashed into a mountain peak in Hawaii on 22 March 1955, killing all 66 people on board. At the time, it was the worst crash involving any variant of the Douglas DC-6 airliner the second-worst aviation accident in U.S.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа R6D-1 на Гавайях — крупнейшая в истории этого штата (66 погибших)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page