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1955 Hawaii R6D-1 crash
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〔(Aviation Safety Network Aircraft Accident Douglas R6D-1 (DC-6) 131612 Honolulu, HI )〕〔Associated Press, "66 Killed as Navy Plane Hits Hawaiian Peak," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', story dated 22 March 1955, quoted in full at (lifegrid.com Charles J. Coombs, Jr. )〕 the second-worst aviation accident in U.S. history,〔 and one of the worst air accidents anywhere in history,〔 and it equalled the 11 August mid-air collision of two United States Air Force C-119G Flying Boxcars over West Germany and the 6 October United Airlines Flight 409 crash as the deadliest air accident of 1955.〔(Aviation Safety Network Aircraft Accident Douglas R6D-1 (DC-6) 131612 Honolulu, HI ) and (Associated Press, "Climbers Fight Cold to Take 66 Bodies From Plane Wreck," ''The Free Lance-Star'', October 7, 1955 ) each place the death toll in the respective accidents at 66, and the (Aviation Safety Network database ) lists no air accidents with a higher death toll during 1955.〕 It remains the worst air disaster in the history of Hawaii〔The Associated Press story "66 Killed as Navy Plane Hits Hawaiian Peak," ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', dated 22 March 1955, quoted in full at (lifegrid.com Charles J. Coombs, Jr. ), states that it was the worst aviation accident in Hawaiis history at the time it happened, and the (Aviation Safety Network database ) cites no air accidents with a higher death toll having taken place in Hawaii to date (4 January 2013).〕 and the deadliest accident involving a heavier-than-air aircraft in the history of United States naval aviation.〔Per (Chronology of Significant Events in Naval Aviation: "Naval Air Transport" 1941 -- 1999 ), and the U.S. Navys Naval Historical Center (now Naval History and Heritage Command) in (Grossnick, Roy A., ''United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995'', Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, undated, ISBN 0–945274–34–3 ), p. 206, also identifies the crash as the worst heavier-than-air accident in U.S. naval aviation history. In addition, the (Aviation Safety Network database ) cites no air accidents involving a heavier-than-air U.S. Navy aircraft with a higher death toll to date (4 January 2013).〕
==Aircraft==
The R6D-1 involved, Bureau Number 131612, had been manufactured in 1953 and was based at Moffett Field, California. The R6D-1 was the U.S. Navy version of the United States Air Forces C-118 Liftmaster and of the civilian Douglas DC-6B airliner.〔〔
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