ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339813
Date: | Thursday 29 June 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-3574 |
MSN: | 26707 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | -
Unknown country
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Misamari Air Base |
Destination airport: | Myitkyina (unknown airport) |
Narrative:A Curtiss C-46A Commando, 42-3574, assigned to 10th Air Force, Air Transport Command, 1328th Air Base Unit, Station 11, departed the airfield at Misamari, India, on a cargo transportation flight to Myitkyina, Burma, then across the Himalayas, to the airfield at Yankai, China.
The C-46A was attacked and set afire by enemy fighters and the crew had to bail out. The pilot was unable to bail out and died in the crash.
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