Date:	Monday 16 July 1945
Time:	19:33
Type:	Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	44-77557
MSN:	32953
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL) -   United States of America
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL/KSZL)
Destination airport:	Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL/KSZL)

Narrative:
The pilot lost control shortly after takeoff from Sedalia AAF runway 13. The airplane stalled from a height of about 500 feet, crashed and burned. It appeared that the elevator gust locks were still in place.

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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