Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 31 JAN 1945 |
| Type: | Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 46611 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Brookings, OR (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | San Francisco Municipal Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO), United States of America |
| Seattle (unknown airport), WA, United States of America |
Flew into hillside during ferry flight.
Sources:
» Oxnard Press-Courier - Feb 1, 1945
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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.
