ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340535
Date: | Wednesday 24 November 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 41-7811 |
MSN: | 4310 |
Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 36 km W off Algiers -
Algeria
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Algiers-Maison Blanche Airport (ALG/DAAG) |
Destination airport: | Oran-es Senia Airport (ORN/DAOO) |
Narrative:The aircraft was carrying passengers and freight from Maison Blanche to Oran in Algeria. At approximately 10:00 hours and 15 miles out over the Mediterranean Sea, the right engine started to burn. The bail out order was given, but the plane lost altitude too quickly to use parachutes. The plane ditched and all personnel cleared the aircraft and attempted to don life vests. Three passengers were picked up by a French fishing boat, but seven others did not survive.
Sources:
Clemson Alumni The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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