ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340518
Date: | Tuesday 30 November 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-40-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-24030 |
MSN: | 9892 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Other fatalities: | 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 3,2 km SSW of Membury USAAF Station 466 -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Welford RAF Station |
Destination airport: | Welford RAF Station |
Narrative:Two Douglas C-47A transport planes from the 71st Sq. of the 434th Troop Carrier Group, 42-24028 (msn 9890) and 42-24030 (msn 9892), were destroyed in an accident near Membury USAAF Station, in Wiltshire, England, following a mid-air collision.
The aircraft were operating on a routine formation training mission out of Welford.
Sources:
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