Date: | Monday 3 January 1944 |
Time: | 00:29 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-92042 |
MSN: | 11799 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 8 km NE of Macon, GA -
United States of America
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Dunnellon AAB, FL |
Destination airport: | Fort Benning-Lawson AAF, GA (LSF/KLSF) |
Narrative:Two C-47 transport planes took off from Dunnellon AAF at 17:15 on a routine transition flight. En route both planes lost sight of each other in instrument conditions. Due to poor weather, Lawson Field would close at 19:30. One of the C-47's landed at Lawson at 19:17. The other did not land and made sporadic radio contact with Atlanta. Last radio contact was at 21:50. The next day, the plane was found to have flown into a small ridge.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR) Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 2: July 1943-July 1944 / Anthony J. Mireles
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