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| Date: | Sunday 1 March 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 42-96539 |
| MSN: | 30201 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,6 km ESE of Avon, IN -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Aurora-Lowry AFB, CO |
| Columbus-Atterbury AFB, IN |
The occupants bailed out after the flight became lost in a blinding snowstorm. The airplane crashed into a farm field.
Sources:
Youngstown Indicator 2 March 1953, p1+2 (placed on 2 March 1959)
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
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