Date: | Sunday 2 July 1944 |
Time: | 21:10 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-65-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-100492 |
MSN: | 18955 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 1,6 km E of Syracuse Municipal Airport, NY -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Syracuse AAF, NY (SYR/KSYR) |
Destination airport: | Wheeler-Sack AAF, NY (KGTB) |
Narrative:The C-47 departed Syracuse AAF for a training flight to Sack Field where it was to practice takeoffs and landings. Instead the plane flew to the Syracuse Municipal Airport. After three or four touch-and-go landings on runway 27, the pilot flew a steep left turn from base leg to final approach. It fell off on a wing, contacted trees and powerlines and crashed into flames.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR) Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 2: July 1943-July 1944 / Anthony J. Mireles
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