Date:	Tuesday 14 March 1972
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47D (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	44-77228
MSN:	33560/16812
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Lake Charles AFB, LA (CWF) -   United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The C-47 crashed while practicing touch-and-go's at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana. The aircraft landed hard and veered to the left into a covered concourse.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Hamburger Abendblatt 16 March 1972, p20

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