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| Date: | Wednesday 26 January 1955 |
| Time: | 16:58 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54G-5-DO (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 45-569 |
| MSN: | 36022 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Ocean Weather Station Echo [35°N 48°W] -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Terceira-Lajes Airport, Azores (TER/LPLA) |
| Bermuda-Kindley Field NAS (NWU) |
The C-54 transport plane was short on fuel and was not able to reach Bermuda. The pilot ditched the plane near the Coast Guard cutter Coos Bay.
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