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| Date: | Wednesday 18 April 1945 |
| Time: | 22:05 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 44-77721 |
| MSN: | 33117 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 13 km NW of Burnet, TX -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Austin-Bergstrom Field, TX (KAUS) |
| Austin-Bergstrom Field, TX (KAUS) |
A C-46 transport plane was destroyed in an accident during a low altitude navigation flight. All four on board were killed. The flight left Austin-Bergstrom Field at 20:31 but failed to return. The wreckage was located four days later. The airplane had crashed into a wooded hillside at an elevation of 1500 feet.
Sources:
Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles
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