- Date
- August 15, 1963
- Place
- Panama Cty, St. Pierre & Miquelon · PANAMA CTY, Panama
- Injuries
- 52 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5906Douglas DC-7C
- Status
- Completed · report August 19, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 112538
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0077 63/8/15 PANAMA CTY,PANAMA DOUGLAS DC-7C CR- 0 0 8 SCHED INTERNATL PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 0203 N5906 PX- 0 0 44 44, 22000 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 5537 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TOCUMEN NATL OPERATOR - BRANIFF AIRWAYS,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL REMARKS- INVESTIGATION UNDER JURISDICTION OF GOVT OF PANAMA. NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5906
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-7C
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Tocumen Natl
N5906Registration cancelled Feb 1, 2013 · Douglas DC-7CAirframe modelDouglas DC-7CEngine modelWright TC18EA series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.