Date: | Friday 26 January 1945 |
Time: | 20:15 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-3669 |
MSN: | 26802 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 4 km S of Bell Center, OH -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Buffalo Airport, NY |
Destination airport: | Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF, OH (FFO/KFFO) |
Narrative:The C-46 transport plane operated on a military cargo flight from Buffalo, NY to Patterson Field, OH carrying 8000 pounds of cargo. A fire started in the area of the fuel cross-feed valve, APU and gasoline heater. The floor structure weakened due to the intense fire and collapsed. The airplane descended on fire and crashed into trees.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR) Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles
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