Date: | Saturday 27 November 1943 |
Time: | 02:00 |
Type: | Lockheed C-60A-5-LO Lodestar |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-56049 |
MSN: | 18-2542 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 13 km S of Sabinal, TX -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Cleveland (unknown airport), OH |
Destination airport: | Hondo AAF, TX (HDO/KHDO) |
Narrative:The Lockheed C-60 was on a navigator-training mission out of Hondo AAF. Arriving back near Hondo, the weather had deteriorated with a ceiling of 900-1000 feet. The pilot was not able to contact Hondo and continued to San Antonio instead. There he requested a radio-compass let down for Hondo.
During the flight to Hondo the C-60 crashed in a near-vertical attitude.
Sources:
Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 2: July 1943-July 1944 / Anthony J. Mireles
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