Accident
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 05 MAI 1944 |
| Heure: | 10:26 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Douglas C-49H |
| Opérant pour: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Loué à : | Pennsylvania-Central Airlines |
| Immatriculation: | NC21788 |
| Numéro de série: | 2187 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 1940 |
| Moteurs: | 2 Wright R-1820-97 |
| Equipage: | victimes: 2 / à bord: 2 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 2 / à bord: 2 |
| Total: | victimes: 4 / à bord: 4 |
| Victime de la collision: | victimes: 4 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | 10 km (6.3 milles) SE de Lake Worth, FL (Etats-Unis d'Amérique) |
| Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
| Nature: | Militaire |
| Aéroport de départ: | Miami-36th Street Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
| Savannah International Airport, GA (SAV/KSAV), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
A Consolidated B-24D (41-11889) departed Homestead AAF, FL on an instrument flight to West Palm Beach, FL. To simulate instrument conditions, the pilot was flying under the hood.
At 10:06 a Douglas C-49 took off from Miami, bound for Savannah and began to climb to its assigned cruising altitude of 3000 feet. At 10:20 the pilot of the B-24 radioed Morrison Fied that the exercise was completed and that they were leaving the Morrison Radio Range. It proceeded to the south at an altitude of 1500 feet. At 10:26 both aircraft collided nearly head on. The B-24D's port wing separated near the nr.1 engine. The airplane rolled over to the left and crashed into the sea. The C-49 went into a steep spiral and impacted the sea about a mile off shore.
It is presumed that the pilot of the B-24 was still under the hood with both crew members of the C-49 preoccupied with their respective cockpit duties.
Official records list the C-49's serial as 39-2187. This seems inprobable
Sources:
» Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
» 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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Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposé destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Miami-36th Street Airport, FL et Savannah International Airport, GA est de 706 km (441 miles).
La distance entre Miami-36th Street Airport, FL et Savannah International Airport, GA est de 706 km (441 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
