CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD

WASHINGTON

January 23, 1961

To:

Members of the Board

From:

Deputy Director, Bureau of Safety

Subject:

Aircraft Accident – Preliminary Notification Capitol Airways, Inc., Logaire Flight, Curtiss C-46, N 1308V, Near Katy, Texas, January 22, 1961.

At approximately 1609 c. s. t., January 22, 1961, a Curtiss C-46, N 1308V, being operated by Capitol Airways, Inc., on a Logaire flight carrying military cargo, crashed seven miles northwest of Katy, Texas. Fatal injuries occurred to the crew of the two - Captain A. A. Shoup and Copilot B. O. Nixon; there were no passengers aboard.

Preliminary information indicates the left engine caught fire and burned free from the aircraft during flight. The left wing panel then separated and was found approximately 180 feet from the main wreckage.

The aircraft was on a VFR flight from San Antonio, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama.

George R. Clark is investigator in charge of the accident; Trumen Finch, Branch Hoch, and Frank Schretter, all of the Board’s Fort Worth office, are at the scene of the accident.

Leon H. Tanguay