ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335033
| Date: | Monday 20 September 1954 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D-15-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 44-78035 |
| MSN: | 33431 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 20 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 3,3 km N of Newhall, CA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Burbank Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR) |
| Sacramento-Mather AFB, CA (MHR/KMHR) |
A US Air Force C-46 Commando transport plane crashed near Newhall, California following an engine fire. All occupants, 17 Civil Air Patrol chaplains and the crew of three, had bailed out before the plane went down.
Sources:
SCVTV
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Sep 20, 1954
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