1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance
The 1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance involved a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II of the 2nd Strategic Support Squadron, Strategic Air Command, which ditched on the late afternoon of 23 March 1951, after an explosion in the cargo and ensuing fire forced the pilots to ditch the aircraft at 50 degrees 22 minutes North, 22 degrees 20 minutes West, in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred nautical miles West Southwest of Ireland, as recorded in the logbook of the US Coast Guard Cutter Casco. The ditching and subsequent evacuation were successful, but when Casco arrived at the ditching position, the aircraft and its occupants had vanished.
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1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance
The 1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance involved a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II of the 2nd Strategic Support Squadron, Strategic Air Command, which ditched on the late afternoon of 23 March 1951, after an explosion in the cargo and ensuing fire forced the pilots to ditch the aircraft at 50 degrees 22 minutes North, 22 degrees 20 minutes West, in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred nautical miles West Southwest of Ireland, as recorded in the logbook of the US Coast Guard Cutter Casco. The ditching and subsequent evacuation were successful, but when Casco arrived at the ditching position, the aircraft and its occupants had vanished.
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A large four-engined transport aircraft sitting on the ground
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A C-124A similar to the aircraft that disappeared
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1951-03-23
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RAF Station Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, U.K.
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Accident
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Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, New Mexico, U.S.
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Atlantic Ocean, 725 km west of Shannon, Ireland
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Limestone Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine, U.S.
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Controlled ditching due to in-flight fire; unexplained disappearance
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The 1951 Atlantic C-124 disapp ...... nd its occupants had vanished.
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1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance
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