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| Date: | Monday 5 March 1956 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47D (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 44-77094 |
| MSN: | 33426/16678 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mount Fuji -
 Japan
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Impacted the side of a mountain.
Sources:
Accident photo
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Passauer Neue Presse 8 March 1956, p2
The Panama American, March 07, 1956
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