Date:	Friday 27 April 1945
Time:	13:44
Type:	Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	44-77706
MSN:	33102
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	40 km SSE of Claude, TX -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL/KSZL)
Destination airport:	San Antonio-Brooks Field, TX

Narrative:
The C-46 transport plane departed Sedalia AAF on a personnel ferry flight to San Antonio-Brooks Field. It took off on a visual clearance but encountered
instrument weather conditions en route. The pilot decided to continue on instruments at an altitude of 6000 feet. The airplane descended until it crashed in a canyon.

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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