ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339570
| Date: | Saturday 2 September 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-70-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-100821 |
| MSN: | 19284 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | OT |
| Location: | Fulbeck USAAF Station AAF-488 -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Douglas C-47 transport planes of the 440th Troop Carrier Group were being prepared for a paratrooper mission to France. Parapacks containing land mines were loaded. One of these mines detonated, causing a chain reaction of explosions. The plane was destroyed.
Sources:
The 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment Association
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