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On December 16, 1951, a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando airliner crashed in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, shortly after taking off from nearby Newark Airport. All 58 people on board were killed. At the time, it was the second-deadliest aviation accident on US soil, behind Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501.
On January 7, 1953, a Curtiss C-46F Commando operating as Associated Air Transport Trip 1-6-6A crashed into terrain approximately 8 miles west of Fish Haven, Idaho, killing all on board. The plane had descended into an area of severe icing, causing ice to form on the wing, eventually crashing into the bottom of a ravine.
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- ↑ American Aviation. Ziff-Davis Pub. Co. June 23, 1969.
- ↑ United States Civil Aeronautics Board (1983). Civil Aeronautics Board Reports: Economic Cases of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Washington, DC: Supt. of Docs. p. 404.
- ↑ "Zantop Air transport". rzjets. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ↑ "Zantop Air Transport- Accident & incidents" . Retrieved 15 Mar 2011.
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