Two views of the Flying Tiger Line DC-6A N34953 which suffered total engine failure after taking off from Idlewilde Airport, New York, on 21.6.57. Pilot Gregory Thomas belly landed the airliner on a sandbar in Jamaica Bay (Top) with only minor injuries to three of the nine crew on board the positioning flight. Almost a month later on 19.7.57 the DC-6 was lifted on to a barge (Lower) and floated across the bay to the Airport. It was airworthy again in August.
21.6.57 Flying Tiger Line DC-6A N34953 c/n 44677 (leased from Main-Elford Corp) had all 4 engines fail at 10.58 local time, after take-off from Runway 31R at Idlewild Airport, due to glycol de-icing fluid having been put into the water/methanol tanks. Capt Gregory Thomas made a forced landing on a sand bar in Jamaica Bay 2 miles SW of the Airport with only minor injuries to two of the 8 crew and company employees on board the positioning flight to Dover, DE. All were rescued by USCG helicopters and although the DC-6 was substantially damaged in the wheels-up landing and by subsequent salt water immersion, it was recovered by barge in the following month by Lockheed Air Service, returned to Idlewild and made airworthy again in 8.57, surviving until at least 1971.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Douglas DC-6 / C-118 Liftmaster - СШАUSA - 1946