Date:	Friday 21 April 1950
Time:	23:25
Type:	Douglas C-54D-10-DC (DC-4)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	42-72704
MSN:	10809
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 35
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	34 km SW of Tachikawa Air Base -   Japan
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Okinawa-Kadena AFB (DNA/RODN)
Destination airport:	Tachikawa Air Base (RJTC)

Narrative:
The Skymaster was on a flight from Clark Air Base to Tachikawa Air Base in Japan with an enroute stop at Okinawa-Kadena AFB. During the last leg of the flight, the crew reported overhead the O-Shima radio range station and were cleared to descend to 5000 feet. In fact the plane was some 40 km south-west of O-Shima. The crew descended over mountainous terrain until the airplane flew into the side of Mount Hirugatake, a 1279 m high mountain which is located near Mount Fuji.

Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
Military aviation disasters : significant losses since 1908 / D. Gero, 1999

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