ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 214277
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Date: | Thursday 11 March 1948 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Douglas R5D (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy (USN) |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 19 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Donaldsonville, LA -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Pensacola, FL |
Destination airport: | Corpus Christi, TX |
Narrative:Navy transport plane crash-landed and burned on a fog-shrauded auxilliary Point Homaux Field. Two injured. Suffered N°4 engine failure near New Orleans and propeller fell off around 03:15 and attempting a landing on a auxilliary (gras) field outside Donaldsonville. Five crew and 14 passengers.
Sources:
Evening Star 11 March 1948, p1
Revision history:
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09-Aug-2018 19:57 |
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09-Aug-2018 19:58 |
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01-Nov-2020 20:51 |
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02-Nov-2020 15:33 |
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06-Nov-2020 21:45 |
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