ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340232
Date: | Tuesday 7 March 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | China National Aviation Corporation - CNAC |
Registration: | 91 |
MSN: | 19453 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Camagüey Air Base (CMW) -
Cuba
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Camagüey Air Base (CMW/MUCM) |
Destination airport: | San Juan (unknown airport) |
Narrative:Douglas C-47A, #91, was one of two aircraft being ferried from the West Palm Beach, Florida, USA to China. The first leg was to be to San Juan, Puerto Rico, but both crews decided to make an intermediate stop at Camagüey in Cuba to buy nineteen cases of liquor. Aircraft 91 crashed and burned during an early morning takeoff from Camagüey.
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