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| Date: | Sunday 4 January 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fairchild C-119CF Flying Boxcar |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 51-2624 |
| MSN: | 10613 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Peru-Bunker Hill AFB, IN (GUS) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Peru-Bunker Hill AFB, IN (GUS/KGUS) |
Crashed on a hilly, wooded area of a farm during a Ground Controlled Approach to Bunker Hill AFB during a snow storm.
Sources:
The News-Sentinel 5 January 1959, p1/7 January 1959, p1
Logansport Press January 07,1959
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