Descripción del Accidente ASN 15 JAN 1945 Douglas R4D-5 (DC-3) 17234 - Tacloban Airport (TAC)
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Fecha:lunes 15 enero 1945
Tipo:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Douglas R4D-5 (DC-3)
Operador:United States Navy
Registración: 17234
Numéro de série: 13596
Año de Construcción: 1944
Tripulación:Fatalidades: 5 / Ocupantes: 5
Pasajeros:Fatalidades: 16 / Ocupantes: 16
Total:Fatalidades: 21 / Ocupantes: 21
Daños en la Aeronave: Anulado
Consecuencias: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Ubicación:Tacloban Airport (TAC) (   Filipinas)
Fase: Despegue (TOF)
Naturaleza:Militar
Aeropuerto de Salida:Tacloban Airport (TAC/RPVA), Filipinas
Aeropuerto de Llegada:?
Descripción:
Crashed following midair collision with USAAF Stinson L-5 (42-99165) off end of the runway.
The R4D-5 operated on a flight to evacuate wounded men, high priority passengers, cargo and mail.

Those lost were:
Crew:
Lt. Bridwell J. McKnight (pilot)
Lt. Donald W. Huegel (co-pilot)
Lt. George A. Danner (navigator)
Sp(V)3c James R. Reynolds (orderly)
ARM1c Hugh G. Ballantyne (radio man)

Passengers:
Lt Com. C.H. Mattson
Lt. Com. G.W. Pease
Lt. E.J. Detmer
Lt. Winfield V. Scott, Jr S(A)
Ens. M.L. Naylor
Ens. N.J. Roccaforte
RhM1c G.M. Pangalos
SK1c F. Hold
PhM2c A.D. Nonsley
PhM2c O.F. Blizzard
PhM2c J.B. Hayden
PhM3c H.E. Dickinson
PhM3c J.C. Raines
PhM3c W.E. Seeling
PhM3c S.D. Stroul
ARM3c M.M. King

Fuentes:
» US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
» The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
» War Diary for the Month of January 1945, NATS, Thirteenth Squadron (VR-13).


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