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| Date: | Friday 24 January 1947 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas R4D-5 (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 39079 |
| MSN: | 10206 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | N of Dartmouth, NS -
 Canada
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | New York-Floyd Bennett Field, NY (NOP/KNOP) |
| Halifax-Shearwater Airport, NS (YAW/CYAW) |
The aircraft flew into trees north of Dartmouth, Canada. Six of the seven occupants seriously injured.
Sources:
Winnipeg Free Press January 25,1947
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Noticias de Hoy - January 28, 1947
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