Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 27 APR 1945 |
| Time: | 11:40 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-20-DK |
| Operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-93172 |
| C/n / msn: | 13054 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 0,8 km (0.5 mls) SW of Emison Auxiliary Airfield, IN (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Lawrenceville-George AAF, IL (LWV/KLWV), United States of America |
| Lawrenceville-George AAF, IL (LWV/KLWV), United States of America |
A Douglas C-47 was destroyed when it mushed into the ground while manoeuvring at Emison Auxiliary Airfield.Two crew members were killed. The airplane operated on a routine instrument training flight out of George Field. The pilot had decided to drop a para-pack at Emison. He was manoeuvring in a slipping left turn to obtain a view of the deployed para-pack.
Events:
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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Distance from Lawrenceville-George AAF, IL to Lawrenceville-George AAF, IL as the crow flies is NAN km (NAN miles).
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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.
