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
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.

Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 2: July 1943-July 1944 / Anthony J. Mireles
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)

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