Date: | Thursday 16 November 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-50-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-24213 |
MSN: | 10075 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Tarquinia -
Italy
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft crashed after a midair collision with a Brazilian Air Force Republic P-47D Thunderbolt (419659). The pilot was blinded by the sun during an air to air photography flight.
At least three crew members of the C-47 were killed in the accident.
Sources:
Folha da Manhã 5 December 1944, p3
22 de abril, Dia da Aviação de Caça (aereo.jor.br) The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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