ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339389
| Date: | Friday 22 September 1944 |
| Time: | 15:50 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-107360 |
| MSN: | 27047 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 34 / Occupants: 34 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Bahrain -
 Bahrain
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Bahrain-Muhurraq RAF Station |
| Karachi (unknown airport) |
The C-46A transport plane had arrived at Bahrain from Habbaniya. It refueled and planned to continue to Karachi.
Upon takeoff the airplane reached a height of 800 feet. It then fell off to the left and crashed into the sea.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
MACR
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