ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334894
| Date: | Sunday 8 May 1955 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-10-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 42-108869 |
| MSN: | 12538 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 24 km ESE of Barnesville, OH -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Baltimore Airport, MD |
| Columbus-Port Columbus International Airport, OH (CMH/KCMH) |
The C-47, operated by the Ohio Air National Guard, suffered an engine failure. Ten passengers bailed out and the four crew members remained on board when the airplane carried out a forced landing on a wooded hillside.
Sources:
The Palm Beach Post - May 9, 1955
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