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DC-3 Crashes at Mojave-Kern


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Contact photographer Michael Van Bosch
Landing photo taken one day before it crashed

What: National Test Pilot School’s AMI 65 TP Turbo DC-3 Registration N834TP
Where: Mojave-Kern County Airport, CA
When: 05 FEB 2009
Who: crew of 2 pilots-one taken by ambulance to the hospital; the other drove himself.
Why: The DC-3 was in takeoff phase from runway 30. After liftoff, it dropped and veered off the runway and sustained substantial damage. Six hundred gallons of fuel leaked from the plane as a result of damage.


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