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| Date: | Wednesday 5 October 1949 |
| Time: | 11:00 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47D (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-16386 |
| MSN: | 20852 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mount Mitchell, NC -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Washington-Bolling AFB, DC (BOF/KBOF) |
| Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM/KBFM) |
A USAF Douglas C-47 transport plane was destroyed in an accident on Mount Mitchell, NC, USA. All nine on board were killed.
The airplane departed Washington-Bolling AFB, DC (BOF) at 08:55 on a flight to Mobile, AL. En route it flew into the forested slope of the cloud-shrouded 6684 ft high Mount Mitchell.
The wreckage was located after two days.
Sources:
The Evening Independent - Oct 7, 1949
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