ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339262
| Date: | Thursday 19 October 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-70-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-1007f04 |
| MSN: | 19167 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Ledo -
 India
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ledo Airfield |
| Myitkyina (unknown airport) |
The C-47A, 42-100704, assigned to 10th Air Force, 443rd Troop Carrier Group, 315th Troop Carrier Squadron, departed Ledo, India, headed to Myitkyina, Burma which had been retaken by allied forces on a routine operational flight. Last contact was by radio when the crew requested a bearing to Ledo.
Sources:
miac47burmawwii.org
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
MACR
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