Date:	Friday 20 July 1945
Time:	07:20
Type:	Douglas C-54E-1-DO (DC-4)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	44-9026
MSN:	27252
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Wilmington-New Castle AAB, DE (ILG) -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Wilmington-New Castle AAB, DE (ILG/KILG)
Destination airport:	Wilmington-New Castle AAB, DE (ILG/KILG)

Narrative:
The C-54E took off from New Castle AAB, DE at 03:22 on a local transition flight. Several simulated instrument approaches were flown. During one of these approaches the airplane crossed the airfield and impacted the ground from a low altitude.
Investigators were not able to find the cause of the accident.

Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher

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