Douglas DC-6 crash, Feb 24, 1978, San Juan-Luis Muñoz Mar...
Douglas DC-6 accident on February 24, 1978 near San Juan-Luis Muñoz Marín (Isla Verde), Puerto Rico with no fatalities. Cause: Wheels-up landing after...
- Date: February 24, 1978
- Aircraft: Douglas DC-6
- Location: San Juan-Luis Muñoz Marín (Isla Verde), Puerto Rico
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Wheels-up landing after the crew failed to confirm that the right main landing gear was down and locked. Listed contributing factors were failure to follow approved procedures, improper emergency procedures and the landing gear retraction/extension assembly.
A Douglas DC-6B registered N6103C, operated by West Indies Air Transport on a cargo flight from Miami, slid on its belly for about 4,300 feet after landing at San Juan-Isla Verde on 24 February 1978 with the right main gear retracted. It veered off the runway into a drainage ditch. All three crew escaped uninjured and the aircraft was written off.