ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335669
Date: | Sunday 10 February 1952 |
Time: | |
Type: | Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 44-77508 |
MSN: | 32904 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 36 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Wheeler-Sack AAF, NY -
United States of America
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Wheeler-Sack AAF, NY (KGTB) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:A Curtiss C-46D transport plane, 44-77508, was the ninth in a formation of 17 that took off from Wheeler-Sack AAF, NY. It carried a crew of four and 32 paratroopers.
On takeoff it made a 90 degree turn and crashed into a row of parked aircraft.
Damaged were Fairchild C-82A Packet (44-23017/45-57795, Cat3) and Ryan L-17B Navion (48-1064, Cat3).
Sources:
Chicago Tribune Feb. 11, 1952 The Spokesman-Review - Feb 11, 1952 Location
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