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Date: | Wednesday 20 September 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed P-38L Lightning |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force (USAAF) |
Registration: | 44-24918 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mt Harvard, Angles Forrest, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed during a test flight for unknown reasons into a mountain and exploded. The pilot, Flight Officer Ray Schwarz Jr. died in the crash.
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:https://books.google.nl/books?id=d7WlBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=curtiss+46+crash+ww2&source=bl&ots=6vEkdfo41v&sig=I-iOAABVkU1Y3oh---cL1inYu8Q&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKipnSyIvMAhWCew4KHQhhDeoQ6AEIWTAL#v=onepage&q=curtiss%2046%20crash%20ww2&f=false]
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
31-May-2016 12:54 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Source, Narrative] |