Date:	Thursday 22 March 1945
Time:	16:15
Type:	Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	44-77320
MSN:	32716
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	19 km SW of Slater, MO -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL/KSZL)
Destination airport:	Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL/KSZL)

Narrative:
The C-46 transport plane operated on a local instrument training flight out of Sedalia AAF. The airplane crashed following the consecutive failure of both wings. Investigators speculated that the wings failed in an overstress situation during a possible unusual attitude recovery.

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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