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| Date: | Thursday 22 October 1964 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas LC-47H |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 12407 |
| MSN: | 9179 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Lillie Glacier -
 Antarctica
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The ski-equipped C-47 crashed when one of its JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) canisters was inadvertently fired while being jettisoned. Striking the left prop, the aircraft was a total loss.
Sources:
A history of the famous vx-6 squadron's aviators. The men who flew the frozen continent and the polar ice cap 1955-1999 / By Noel Gillespie
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