Accident
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Estado: | |
| Fecha: | 24 SEP 1944 |
| Hora: | 19:40 |
| Tipo: | Douglas C-47A-30-DL |
| Operador: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registración: | 42-23783 |
| Numéro de série: | 9645 |
| Año de Construcción: | |
| Motores: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 4 / Ocupantes: 4 |
| Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 8 / Ocupantes: 8 |
| Total: | Fatalidades: 12 / Ocupantes: 12 |
| Daños en la Aeronave: | Anulado |
| Consecuencias: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Ubicación: | 9 km (5.6 milles) W of Camp Mackall, NC (Estados Unidos de América)
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| Fase: | En ruta (ENR) |
| Naturaleza: | Militar |
| Aeropuerto de Salida: | Lumberton AAF, NC, Estados Unidos de América |
| Lumberton AAF, NC, Estados Unidos de América |
The C-47 transport plane was part of a six-ship formation that had departed Lumberton AAF on a night time parachute drop. The aircraft were flying in a V of V's formation dropping parachute supply bundles near Camp MacKall. One of the aircraft collided with the parachute bundle dropped from a preceding airplane. The bundle hit the control surface of the right hand wing. The airplane rolled out of control and entered a spin. The pilot could not recover from the spin and the airplane crashed and burned.
Fuentes:
» Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
» Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles
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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.
