Date: | Friday 1 September 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 43-15802 |
MSN: | 20268 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | within Myanmar -
Myanmar
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Dinjan Airport |
Destination airport: | Dinjan Airport |
Narrative:The C-47, assigned to 10th Air Force, 3rd Combat Cargo Group, 11th Combat Cargo Squadron, departed the airfield at Dinjan, India, on a food supply drop mission in Burma, to return to Dinjan airfield. It was last contacted by radio 30 minutes from Dinjan airfield.
Extensive search failed to locate the C-47A.
Sources:
miac47burmawwii.org Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR) usaafdata.com
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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