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Date: | Saturday 8 January 1949 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas B-26 Invader |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force (USAF) |
Registration: | 44-31272 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
Other fatalities: | 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2 miles east of Itami AFB -
Japan
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Collided with another B-26 and crashed into manufacturing plant near Kobe in Nishinomiya village near Osaka. *The areal-gunner (26) killed. **Two US airmen and three japanese labourers killed, 26 in the factory injured.
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/ *Madera Tribune 12 January 1949, p8
**The Indian Express 12 January 1949, p6
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Jan-2015 14:49 |
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23-Nov-2017 15:24 |
TB |
Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
25-Dec-2018 09:14 |
TB |
Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |