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| Date: | Sunday 10 February 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 44-77508 |
| MSN: | 32904 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 36 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Wheeler-Sack AAF, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Wheeler-Sack AAF, NY (KGTB) |
A Curtiss C-46D transport plane, 44-77508, was the ninth in a formation of 17 that took off from Wheeler-Sack AAF, NY. It carried a crew of four and 32 paratroopers.
On takeoff it made a 90 degree turn and crashed into a row of parked aircraft.
Damaged were Fairchild C-82A Packet (44-23017/45-57795, Cat3) and Ryan L-17B Navion (48-1064, Cat3).
Sources:
Chicago Tribune Feb. 11, 1952
The Spokesman-Review - Feb 11, 1952
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