Date: | Wednesday 8 November 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 43-15864 |
MSN: | 20330 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Yazagyo -
Myanmar
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Tulihal Air Base |
Destination airport: | Tulihal Air Base |
Narrative:A C47A, 43-15864 assigned to 10th Air Force, 1st Combat Cargo Group, 3rd Combat Cargo Squadron, departed the airfield at Tulihal, India, on an operational mission to Drop Zone YN in Burma and was last reported to be near Yazagyo, Burma.
Also reported to have crashed near Paoshan, China, but a crash in Burma (Myanmar) seems more plausible.
Sources:
miac47burmawwii.org The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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