ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340974
Date: | Saturday 29 May 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47 (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Soviet Air Force |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | nr Uelkal, Chukotka -
Russia
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Uelkal Airport |
Narrative:Flew into the side of a hill while descending through clouds.
Uelkal was an airfield used as a refueling stop for aircraft being ferried from the U.S. to the Soviet Union for use on the Western Front during World War II.
Sources:
Scramble 362
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