ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339607
Date: | Friday 25 August 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-3575 |
MSN: | 26708 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 31 km NE of Shingowlyang -
Myanmar
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Kunming-Wujiaba Airfield (KMG/ZPPP) |
Destination airport: | Sookerating Air Base |
Narrative:A Curtiss C-46 Commando, 42-3575, assigned to 10th Air Force, Air Transport Command, 1337th Air Base Unit, departed the airfield at Sookerating, India, on a flight to the airfield at Kunming, China, and return. A report was made that the C-46 was found, crashed, about 19 miles NE of Shingowlyang, Burma, and the crew was killed.
Sources:
miac47burmawwii.org MACR
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