ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 308607
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| Date: | Wednesday 16 June 1948 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Type: |  Republic P-47D Thunderbolt |
| Owner/operator: | Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near BA Mariscal Sucre -
 Ecuador
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | BA Mariscal Sucre, Quito |
(1) "Fighter" crashed and caught fire shortly after take-off on a training flight in a formation of Escuadrilla de Caza. Ten Av Proano. Type not reported but P-47D Thunderbold/small number Seversky P-35A and AT-6 in use (1948).
(2) also reported two occupants died but in confusion with the C-47 502 at Pastaza on same date
Sources:
(1) La Nación (Santiago) 17 June 1948, p11
(2) El Tiempo 18 June 1948, p8 and http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/348970_04/53111
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