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| Date: | Wednesday 28 April 1943 |
| Time: | 17:55 |
| Type: |  Piper J-3F-65 Cub |
| Owner/operator: | Defense Plant Corp |
| Registration: | NC38561 |
| MSN: | 7129 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Skunk River near Lowell, IA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Mount Pleasant Airport, IA |
Hit a high tension power line over the Skunk River, while on a simulated emergency landing, crashed in the river and sank, the trainee pilot drowned.
Sources:
https://books.google.nl/books?id=SN3pjjyw9e8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Baton&f=false
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