ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 101316
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Date: | Monday 16 October 1944 |
Time: | 1:58 |
Type: | Consolidated B-24J Liberator |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force (USAAF) |
Registration: | 42-51067 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Camels Hump, VT -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Westover Field, Chicopee, Mass. |
Destination airport: | Westover Field, Chicopee Mass. |
Narrative:Crashed during a training flight. 18 inches of the left wing clipped the 4,083-foot mountain during a routine night training mission. There was the only one survivor of the 10-man crew.
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp http://www.berkshireeagle.com/northeastnews/ci_26006039/rescuers-victim-1944-mountaintop-army-plane-crash-honored Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Jun-2014 13:12 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
20-Oct-2022 06:37 |
jpkelson |
Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
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