Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 31 MAY 1944 |
| Type: | Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 34033 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Attu Island-Casco Field NAS, AK (United States of America) |
| Phase: | () |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Force landed due to fuel exhaustion off NAS Attu, Alaska and sank under tow.
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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.
