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1946 aviation accident

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TWA Flight 513
Accident
A TWA Lockheed L-049, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident
Date	July 11, 1946
Summary	In-flight fire
Site	Bern Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. 40°24′58″N 75°59′29″W / 40.41611°N 75.99139°W / 40.41611; -75.99139
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Lockheed L-049 Constellation
Aircraft name	Star of Lisbon
Operator	Transcontinental & Western Air
Registration	NC86513
Occupants	6
Crew	6
Fatalities	5
Injuries	1
Survivors	1

TWA Flight 513, registration NC86513, Star of Lisbon, was a Lockheed L-049 Constellation operated by Transcontinental and Western Air on a training flight on July 11, 1946, near Reading, Pennsylvania.

Description

The electrical wiring in the baggage compartment of TWA Flight 513 on July 11, 1946, arced, starting a fire while the aircraft was in the air. The smoke and intense fire that were created made it impossible for the pilots to maintain control of the aircraft.

Of the six crewmembers aboard, five were killed.

This accident was memorable for the subsequent grounding of all Lockheed Constellations that was required from July 12 until August 23, 1946, when cargo fire detection equipment could be installed on all similar airplane models.

References

"NC86513 accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 16 August 2013.

External links

Report of the Civil Aeronautics Board (Archive)

v t e Lockheed Constellation family
Model numbers	L-049 L-051 L-084 L-104 L-139 L-149 L-249 L-349 L-449 L-549 L-649 L-749 L-849 L-949 L-1049 A B/F L-1149 L-1249 L-1449 L-1549 L-1649
Names	Constellation (I) Constellation (II) Constellation (III) Speedfreighter Starliner Super Constellation (I) Super Constellation (II)
Military designations	B-30 C-69 C-121 F EC-121 PO R7O/R7V -2 WV W2V
Accidents and incidents	TWA Flight 513 (1946) TWA Flight 6963 (1946) Pan Am Flight 121 (1947) Pan Am Flight 1-10 (1948) Air France Flight 009 (1949) TWA Flight 903 (1950) Air India Flight 245 (1950) Pan Am Flight 151 (1951) Air France Flight 152 (1953) Air France Flight 178 (1953) KLM Flight 633 (1954) Air India Flight 300 (1955) El Al Flight 402 (1955) LAV Flight 253 (June 1956) TWA Flight 2 (1956) LAV Flight 253 (November 1956) KLM Flight 844 (1957) KLM Flight 607-E (1958) Lufthansa Flight 502 (1959) TWA Flight 891 (1959) Avianca Flight 671 (1960) Air France Flight 343 (1960) TWA Flight 266 (1960) Air France Flight 406 (1961) TWA Flight 529 (1961) IA Flight 201/8 (1961) FTL Flight 739 (1962) Paradise Airlines Flight 901A (1964) EAL Flight 853 (1965) LANSA Flight 501 (1966)
Notable aircraft	Avion Pirata Columbine II Kashmir Princess
Topics	Operators Variants

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1946 (1946)
Jan 6 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 105Jan 14 Kolpny Li-2 crashMar 3 American Airlines Flight 6-103Mar 10 Australian National Airways DC-3 crashApr 5 Rabat Vickers Wellington crashApr 8 USAF C-47 Yan'an crashJul 9 Mount Tom B-17 crashJul 11 TWA Flight 513Aug 7 British European Airways Flight 530Oct 3 AOA Douglas DC-4 Flagship New EnglandOct 7 Apeldoorn aircraft crashNov 5 Vnukovo aircraft crashesNov 14 Amsterdam KLM Douglas C-47 crashNov 19 C-53 Gauli Glacier crashDec 19 Railway Air Services Dakota crashDec 25 Black Christmas disasterDec 28 TWA Flight 6963Dec 28 American Airlines Flight 2207Dec 30 PBM Mariner Antarctica crash
1945 ◄ ► 1947

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1946 (1946)

Jan 6 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 105Jan 14 Kolpny Li-2 crashMar 3 American Airlines Flight 6-103Mar 10 Australian National Airways DC-3 crashApr 5 Rabat Vickers Wellington crashApr 8 USAF C-47 Yan'an crashJul 9 Mount Tom B-17 crashJul 11 TWA Flight 513Aug 7 British European Airways Flight 530Oct 3 AOA Douglas DC-4 Flagship New EnglandOct 7 Apeldoorn aircraft crashNov 5 Vnukovo aircraft crashesNov 14 Amsterdam KLM Douglas C-47 crashNov 19 C-53 Gauli Glacier crashDec 19 Railway Air Services Dakota crashDec 25 Black Christmas disasterDec 28 TWA Flight 6963Dec 28 American Airlines Flight 2207Dec 30 PBM Mariner Antarctica crash

1945 ◄ ► 1947

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1940s
1940	Lovettsville air disaster (August 1940)
1941	Eastern Air Lines Flight 21 (February 1941) Northwest Airlines Flight 5 (October 1941)
1942	TWA Flight 3 (January 1942) American Airlines Flight 28 (October 1942)
1943	Pan Am Flight 1104 (January 1943) American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Ohio) (July 1943) American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Missouri) (October 1943) Tamaqua, PA crash (November 1943)
1944	American Airlines Flight 2 (February 1944) TWA Flight 277 (June 1944) South Portland A-26 Invader crash (July 1944)
1945	American Airlines Flight 6001 (January 1945) Eastern Air Lines Flight 45 (July 1945) National Airlines Flight 16 (October 1945)
1946	Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 105 (January 1946) Mount Tom B-17 crash (July 9 1946) TWA Flight 513 (July 11 1946)
1947	United Air Lines Flight 521 (May 29 1947) Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 (May 30 1947) Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410 (June 1947) United Air Lines Flight 608 (October 24 1947) Pan Am Flight 923 (October 26 1947)*
1948	Mantell UFO incident (January 7 1948) Los Gatos DC-3 crash (January 28 1948) Delta Air Lines Flight 705 (March 10 1948) Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 (March 12 1948) United Air Lines Flight 624 (June 1948) Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash (July 1948) Northwest Airlines Flight 421 (August 1948) Georgia USAF Boeing B-29 crash (October 1948) Airborne Transport DC-3 disappearance (December 1948)
1949	Strato-Freight Curtiss C-46A crash (June 1949) Standard Air Lines Flight 897R (July 1949) Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 (November 1 1949) American Airlines Flight 157 (November 29 1949)
This list is incomplete. An asterisk (*) denotes an incident that took place in a U.S. territory, including Alaska and Hawaii prior to statehood. 1930–1939 ◄ 1940–1949 ► 1950–1959

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Accidents and incidents

1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash
Flight 6 (1935)
Flight 1 (1936)
Flight 15A (1937)
1938 Yosemite TWA crash
Flight 3 (1942)
Flight 277 (1944)
Flight 513 (1946)
Flight 6963 (1946)
Flight 903 (1950)
1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision
Flight 260 (1955)
Flight 400 (1956)
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
Flight 891 (1959)
1960 New York mid-air collision
Flight 529 (1961)
Flight 800 (1964)
1965 Carmel mid-air collision
Flight 553 (1967)
Flight 159 (1967)
Flight 128 (1967)
TWA Flight 840 hijacking (1969)
Dawson's Field hijackings (1970)
Flight 742 (1973)
Flight 841 (1974)
Flight 514 (1974)
Flight 37 (1975)
Flight 355 (1976)
Flight 541 (1978)
Flight 841 (1979)
Flight 847 (1985)
Flight 840 bombing (1986)
Flight 843 (1992)
Flight 427 (1994)
Flight 800 (1996)

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