Groton, Connecticut – February 24, 1984
At about 5:00 p.m. on the evening of February 24, 1984, a Hercules cargo plane was taxiing at Groton-New London Airport when its wingtip struck the nose of a moored and unoccupied DC-3 passenger liner slicing through the nose of the DC-3. There were no injuries in the incident.
The cargo plane was operated by a California company, and the DC-3, built in 1950, had been purchased three years earlier by a local airline, but had never been put in service.
Source:
The Day, (New London, CT.), “Plane Is Hit Near Taxiway”, February 25, 1984, page 1.
