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    The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas...
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    crash site Greenville Baton Rouge On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg...
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    produced from 1954 to 1956 by Convair. It is the military version of the Convair CV-240 family of airliners. This was one of the last radial engined aircraft...
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    The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner produced by Convair from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement of the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3. Featuring...
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    On 19 June 1954 a Swissair Convair CV-240 ditched off Folkestone, Kent when it ran out of fuel while crossing the English Channel. All on board survived...
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    On 14 October 1953, a Sabena Convair CV-240 crashed 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Frankfurt, West Germany, shortly after taking off from Frankfurt International...
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  • 1-11". rzjets. Retrieved August 12, 2019. "Convair CV-240". rzjets. Retrieved August 12, 2019. "Convair CV-440". rzjets. Retrieved August 12, 2019. "Douglas...
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    Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft-manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was...
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  • crew members on board survived. On 31 July 1960, a Deutsche Flugdienst Convair CV-240 (registered D-BELU) en route from Frankfurt to Rimini experienced failures...
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  • brother, Steve, who joined the band soon after. On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton...
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    American Airlines Flight 476 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    Laguardia Airport in New York City, New York. On August 4, 1955, the Convair CV-240-0 crashed while attempting an emergency landing in Fort Leonard Wood...
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    Partnair Flight 394 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    parts. The accident aircraft, registered as LN-PAA, was a 36-year-old Convair CV-580 operated by the Norwegian charter airline Partnair. The aircraft was...
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  • people were killed when the aircraft burst into flames. 15 March 1952 Convair CV-240-23 PK-GCH collided in mid-air with Douglas C-47A PK-RCR; both aircraft...
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  • York, South Africa, and South America with Douglas DC-4s. The modern Convair 240, the first Swissair plane with a pressurised cabin, was used for short...
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    Retrieved March 8, 2019. "Please verify your request". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved February 17, 2019. "Convair CV-440 / American Inter-Island"....
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    from the original on January 19, 2023. Retrieved September 12, 2022. "Convair 340". Delta Museum. Atlanta: Delta Air Lines. Archived from the original...
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  • all 20 passengers and four crew members on board. On 15 May 1958, a Convair CV-240 with the registration AP-AEH, operating as Flight 205 from Delhi to...
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    in Pretoria plane crash". Retrieved 2018-08-07. "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-340 ZS-BRV Pretoria-Wonderboom Airport (PRY)". Aviation Safety Network...
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    by problems in the Allison T40 programme. The engines fitted to the Convair CV-240-21 Turboliner were rated to 2,750 shp (2,050 kW) equivalent. In 1951...
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    The passengers had been informed about potential problems with the Convair CV-240 and were told to brace for a crash. Van Zant died on impact from head...
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    decade and a half before its rediscovery in 1958. On 19 June 1954, a Convair CV-240 aircraft operated by Swissair registered HB-IRW ran out of fuel over...
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    On 31 July 2010, a Convair CV-580 Airtanker aircraft operated by Conair Aviation crashed while on a firefighting mission near Lytton, British Columbia...
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    the original on 7 August 2016. Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-240-4 HB-IRW Folkestone". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 11 August 2022...
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    On 17 December 1960, a Convair C-131D Samaritan operated by the United States Air Force on a flight from Munich to RAF Northolt crashed shortly after...
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    Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family)
    stands as the fourth-deadliest crash of a Convair CV-440 to date. The aircraft involved in the crash was a Convair 340/440-38, registered as N4189C. It was...
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  • safely continue to its destination. December 9, 1948 Flight 428, a Convair CV-240-2 (NC90665), ran off the runway while taking off from Rancho Boyeros...
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    National–Pan Am–Panagra DC-7B via Panama and Lima took 22 hours and 45 minutes. Convair 240s replaced DC-3s and other pre-war types on Pan Am's shorter flights...
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    The 1977 Aviateca Convair 240 airplane crash was a scheduled Aviateca passenger flight that crashed near Guatemala City, Guatemala on April 27, 1977....
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    the flames. The aircraft was later repaired. On 16 February 1987, a Convair CV-240-24 (N93218) of IAI was destroyed in a hangar fire. On 1 December 1988...
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  • airliners. The airline later operated the Douglas DC-6B version as well. Convair CV-240 family airliners were also acquired to replace some of the DC-3s on...
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