ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336492
| Date: | Friday 7 January 1949 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-15931 |
| MSN: | 20379 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 6,5 km SW of Mineral, WA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ogden-Hill AFB, UT (HIF/KHIF) |
| Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM/KTCM) |
The Douglas C-47 operated on a flight from Maxwell Field, Alabama to McChord Field, Washington with a refueling stop at Hill Field, Utah.
The airplane departed Hill Field at 19:34 hours. Last radio contact was at 22:44 hours when the crew radioed that they were over Tacoma, commencing the approach to McChord.
The wreckage was located January 9, 30 miles west of Mount Rainier.
Sources:
The Deseret News - Jan 7, 1949
The Deseret News - Jan 10, 1949
Accident-Report.com
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 31 August 1945 | 43-15913 | United States Army Air Force - USAAF | 0 | 160 km NW of Fuzhou |  |
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