ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 110258
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| Date: | Friday 25 February 1944 |
| Time: | c. 1615 |
| Type: |  North American AT-6 Texan |
| Owner/operator: | 318th AAFFTD USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-44092 |
| MSN: | 88-13705 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 10 miles NW of Quartzite, AZ -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Blythe AAF, CA |
| Tucson airfield, AZ | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
AT-6 42-44092, operated by the 318th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment, was on a solo cross-country navigation exercise.
At about 1615 a pilot was seen, by a witness on the ground, to bale out of a smoking aircraft.
Taking two other men to help him the witness, a miner, located the pilot about 45 minutes later.
The pilot had been dragged by her parachute over rocky ground in the strong wind and was seriously injured.
She was taken by truck to Quartzite and was transferred to an Army ambulance and taken to the Base Hospital at Blythe Army Air Field.
She died from her injuries shortly after admission to the hospital.
Examination of the wreckage showed that the RH tailplane had caught fire in the air, probably as the result of being struck by sparks from the plane's exhaust.
Betty Pauline Stine, Women Air Service Pilots Trainee Class 44-W-2.
R.I.P.
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp
'On Final Approach-WASP in WW II.' By Byrd Howell Granger.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Apr-2011 01:22 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 10-Apr-2011 21:34 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative] |
| 04-Sep-2011 09:06 | Uli Elch | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Sep-2011 06:22 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport] |
| 08-Sep-2011 06:25 | angels one five | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |
| 16-Feb-2012 04:29 | Nepa | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Sep-2013 03:51 | angels one five | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 14-Mar-2014 09:18 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Location, Narrative] |
| 24-May-2018 05:27 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, Narrative] |
| 13-Feb-2020 17:58 | Iwosh | Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
| 19-Apr-2021 08:30 | angels one five | Updated [Operator] |
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