Date:	Thursday 27 December 1951
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47B-15-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	43-49413
MSN:	26674/15229
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 23
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Fukuoka-Itazuke AFB (FUK) -   Japan
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Fukuoka-Itazuke AFB (FUK/RJFF)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff accident. The C-47 crashed against a maintenance hangar from 30 meters altitude and caught fire.
Four occupants were killed and 19 were injured. Eight others injured were ground personnel.

Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
El Litoral 28 December 1951, p1
Chicago Tribune Dec. 28, 1951

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