Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 FEB 1943 |
| Type: | Curtiss C-46 Commando |
| Operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-5176 |
| C/n / msn: | 26378 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800-43 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Buffalo, NY (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military test |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Buffalo Niagara International Airport, NY (BUF/KBUF), United States of America |
The C-46 burst into flames when the plane made an emergency landing at Buffalo.
Sources:
» Pilots Escape in Crash Of Curtiss Transport (Salamanca Republican-Press, 1943-02-25)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
