ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337510
| Date: | Tuesday 11 December 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 43-15423 |
| MSN: | 19889 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | between Tachikawa and Okinawa -
 Pacific Ocean
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Tachikawa Air Base (RJTC) |
| Okinawa (unknown airport) |
The C-47A transport plane departed Tachikawa, Japan at 12:12 on a ferry flight to Okinawa and Manila-Nielson Field. The airplane failed to arrive at the destination and was reported missing.
Search efforts were abandoned on 18 December 1945.
Sources:
MACR
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