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| Date: | Sunday 20 December 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas R4D-8 (Super DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 17179 |
| MSN: | 43346 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Agrihan Island -
 Northern Mariana Islands
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Crashed into volcano crater on Agrihan Island, Marianas. The airplane was engaged in a search mission to find a US Navy Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (59716) weather reconnaissance plane that went missing while tracing typhoon Doris with nine on board.
The R4D-8's wreckage was located on December 26.
Sources:
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
The Miami News - Dec 21, 1953
Lewiston Morning Tribune - Dec 27, 1953
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Cheryl Davis; Guam-Agana NAS (NGM); 1953
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