User:RandomInfinity17/Flying Tiger Line Flight 923
 The accident aircraft at Torslanda Airport in June 1961 | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | September 23, 1962 |
| Summary | Ditching after engine failure |
| Site | North Atlantic Ocean, around 560 nmi (640 mi) west of Shannon, Ireland 52°12′N 24°30′W / 52.200°N 24.500°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Lockheed Constellation L-1049H |
| Operator | Flying Tiger Line |
| Registration | N6923C |
| Flight origin | McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, United States |
| Stopover | Gander International Airport, Gander, Canada |
| Destination | Rhein-Main Air Base, Frankfurt, West Germany |
| Occupants | 76 |
| Passengers | 68 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 28 |
| Survivors | 48 |
Flying Tiger Line Flight 923 was a chartered military transport flight that ditched in the North Atlantic Ocean on September 23, 1962. The Lockheed Constellation L-1049H was transporting 68 military personal of the United States Army from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey to Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany. While flying over the North Atlantic on the Gander-Frankfurt leg, the number 3 engine fire warning sounded, and the engine was shut down. When trying to finish the engine shutdown checklist, the flight engineer accidently turns off the fuel flow to the number 1 engine, leaving the aircraft on only two engines. Approximately an hour later and after the L-1049H started to divert to Shannon, Ireland, the number 2 engine caught on fire and was forced to be at reduced thrust. The aircraft was forced to ditched in the stormy waters of the Atlantic, where 48 survived for six hours until the MS Celerina arrived at the scene.