Accident
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 25 DEC 1944 |
| Heure: | 04:27 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Douglas C-47B-1-DL |
| Compagnie: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Immatriculation: | 43-16151 |
| Numéro de série: | 20617 |
| Année de Fabrication: | |
| Moteurs: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Equipage: | victimes: 4 / à bord: 4 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 8 / à bord: 23 |
| Total: | victimes: 12 / à bord: 27 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Détruit |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | 5 km (3.1 milles) SW of Harrisburg-Municipal Airport, PA (HAR) (Etats-Unis d'Amérique) |
| Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
| Nature: | Militaire |
| Aéroport de départ: | Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF, OH (FFO/KFFO), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
| Minneapolis-Wold-Chamberlain Field, MN (MSP/KMSP), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
A Douglas C-47 transport plane was destroyed when it flew into the side of a hill. All four crew members and eight of the 23 passengers were killed in the
accident.
The flight had left Patterson Field, OH at 22:21 on a flight to Minneapolis. Serious headwinds forced the crew to descend to a lower altitude than the 12.000 feet they had been cleared for. Then the airplane began to pick up ice. The crew decided to return to Patterson at 23:18. Weather at Patterson had deteriorated and the pilot was given an alternate of Harrisburg, PA. Weather at Harrisburg also deteriorated but the flight was cleared for a runway 12 straight in approach. After nine unsuccesful attempts to land the airplane was low on fuel. Ceiling continued to lower and the crew manoeuvred around the airport until the airplane struck 900-foot Reeser's Summit at an elevation of 700 feet.
Sources:
» 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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Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposé destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF, OH et Minneapolis-Wold-Chamberlain Field, MN est de 933 km (583 miles).
La distance entre Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF, OH et Minneapolis-Wold-Chamberlain Field, MN est de 933 km (583 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
