The aircraft begins to descend at a rate of 500 feet per minute. The engine stops, but the propeller shaft shears with the propeller windmilling at an increased rate. The pilot elects to shut down the engine by turning off the fire wall shut off. Attempts to cut off and/or feather the propeller fail and the aircraft loses altitude. Two hours into an expected 3:02 flight, the port engine begins to overspeed. 5 March A Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar, 53-8152A of the 12th Troop Carrier Squadron, 322d Air Division, Dreux Air Base, France, departs Adana, Turkey with 3 crew, 15 passengers and 7,614 lb of cargo, makes a fuelling stop at Athens, Greece, departing at 1600 hrs. Extensive sea search around Roaring Middle Light failed to find any trace of the missing Lightning. Total flights 34, hours flown 23 h 35 min. Leader Harding, ejects safely, descending near Syderstone, in North Norfolk. 5 March Late pre-production English Electric Lightning F.1, XG334 of the Air Fighting Development Squadron, RAF Coltishall, Norfolk, aircraft 'A', crashes near Wells-next-the-Sea after suffering complete hydraulic failure, resulting in loss of all control-surface power and hydraulic services. 26 February A Lockheed F-104C Starfighter, 56-0905, of the 436th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 479th Tactical Fighter Wing, hits a mountain 7 NM NNE of airfield during a night approach for landing at Nellis AFB, Nevada. All 26 passengers and crew of the Brazilian aircraft die. Of the 38 occupants of the American aircraft, 3 survive. Main article: 1960 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision United States Navy Douglas R6D-1, BuNo 131582, flying from Buenos Aires – Ezeiza to Galeão International Airport/Galeão Air Force Base collides in mid-air over Guanabara Bay near Sugarloaf Mountain with a Real Transportes Aéreos Douglas DC-3, registration PP-AXD, flying from Campos dos Goytacazes to Rio de Janeiro – Santos Dumont Airport. Walter Jefferson, Jr., pilot of the aircraft, Tulsa, Okla 2d Lt. One crew and nine passengers presumed dead. Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.ġ960 4 January Three United States Army de Havilland Canada U-1A Otters, of the 329th Engineer Detachment, fly from Wheelus Air Base to Bengazi, Libya, but 55-2974 disappears over the Gulf of Sirte in the Mediterranean in a storm Prague.
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