Date: | Sunday 24 September 1944 |
Time: | 19:40 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-30-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-23783 |
MSN: | 9645 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 9 km W of Camp Mackall, NC -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Lumberton AAF, NC |
Destination airport: | Lumberton AAF, NC |
Narrative:The C-47 transport plane was part of a six-ship formation that had departed Lumberton AAF on a night time parachute drop. The aircraft were flying in a V of V's formation dropping parachute supply bundles near Camp MacKall. One of the aircraft collided with the parachute bundle dropped from a preceding airplane. The bundle hit the control surface of the right hand wing. The airplane rolled out of control and entered a spin. The pilot could not recover from the spin and the airplane crashed and burned.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR) Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles
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