ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335604
Date: | Tuesday 29 April 1952 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 43-15379 |
MSN: | 19845 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Dentist C -
South Korea
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Seoul (unknown airport) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The C-47 aircraft of the 21st Troop Carrier Squadron was participating in the evacuation of the American wounded in Korea. It was enroute from Seoul to Cho-do Island off the west coast of North Korea. It crashed in the water just off "Dentist C".
Sources:
US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
Korean War Aircraft Loss Database (KORWALD) Arlington National Cemetery website; Benjamin H. Woodruff, Jr. Revision history:
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