Clark – Agana – Wake – Travis

On September 19, 1960 at 06:02 AM, Clark – Agana – Wake – Travis experienced a crash involving Douglas DC-6, operated by World Airways, with the event recorded near Agana-Antonio Borja Won Pat All Guam Island.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

94 people were known to be on board, 80 fatalities were recorded, 14 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 85.1%.

Crew on board: 8, crew fatalities: 7, passengers on board: 86, passenger fatalities: 73, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. On September 19, 1960, at approximately 0602 local time, a Douglas DC-6AB, N 90779, operated by World Airways, Inc., as Military Air Transport Flight 830/18, bound for Wake Island and the United States. crashed and burned on Mt. Barrigada approximately two nautical miles from the departure end of runway 6L, Agana Naval Air Station, Guam, Mariana Islands. Of the 94 occupants on board, seven crew members and 73 passengers received fatal injuries; one crew member and 13 passengers survived. The flight received FAA Air Route Traffic Control route and departure clearances and took off into night VFR weather conditions. It made a right turn after takeoff and although making a-continuous climb over the distance flown. it struck Mt. Barrigada at a point approximately 300 feet above the elevation of the airport, and slid into the thick-underbrush cutting a Swath for nearly 1,1000 feet before it came to rest. Damage and injury were more attributable to fire than impact forces. The Board determines that this accident occurred because of the failure of the pilot to comply with published departure procedures applicable to runways 6 left and 6 right.

Aircraft reference details include registration N90779, MSN 44914, year of manufacture 1956.