Accident description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 07 NOV 1943 |
| Type: | Curtiss C-46A Commando |
| Operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-5171 |
| C/n / msn: | 26373 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Myitkyina (Myanmar) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Kunming-Wujiaba Airfield (KMG/ZPPP), China |
| Sookerating AB, India |
Crashed. All five crew members were POW.
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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.
