Date:	Wednesday 18 April 1945
Time:	22:05
Type:	Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	44-77721
MSN:	33117
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	13 km NW of Burnet, TX -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Austin-Bergstrom Field, TX (KAUS)
Destination airport:	Austin-Bergstrom Field, TX (KAUS)

Narrative:
A C-46 transport plane was destroyed in an accident during a low altitude navigation flight. All four on board were killed. The flight left Austin-Bergstrom Field at 20:31 but failed to return. The wreckage was located four days later. The airplane had crashed into a wooded hillside at an elevation of 1500 feet.

Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles

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