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Old Mar 31, 2009 | 5:36 pm
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Bobster
 
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Searching the NTSB database, I can only find one fatal accident after 1980 caused by an engine fire. It was a DC-6A, on July 20, 1996, that suffered a failure of the master rod in the front bank of cylinders of the #3 engine.

If I missed any, please let me know.
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