ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336542
| Date: | Sunday 5 December 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54D-10-DC (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 42-72686 |
| MSN: | 10791 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 37 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1930 km SW off Hawaii -
 Pacific Ocean
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Okinawa-Naha AFB (AHA) |
| Spokane-Fairchild AFB, WA (SKA/KSKA) |
The C-54 was one of a flight of five ferrying air force personnel from Okinawa back to Spokane. The airplane ditched in the Pacific Ocean. The survivors were rescued after 40 hours.
Sources:
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Dec 7, 1948
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