ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335477
| Date: | Monday 1 December 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47D (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 45-1124 |
| MSN: | 34394/17127 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 18 km NNW of Banning, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Bellevue-Offutt AFB, NE (OFF/KOFF) |
| Riverside-March AFB, CA (RIV/KRIV) |
The Douglas C-47D impacted Mt. San Gorgonio in a snowstorm while on a flight from Offutt AFB, Nebraska to March AFB, California killing the 13 men on board.
On December 5, 1952, a Marine Corps Sikorsky HO3S helicopter crashed while trying to reach the crash site.
Sources:
aircraftwrecks.com
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