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| Date: | Thursday 22 March 1945 |
| Time: | 16:15 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D-5-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 44-77320 |
| MSN: | 32716 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 19 km SW of Slater, MO -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL/KSZL) |
| Sedalia Army Air Field, MO (SZL/KSZL) |
The C-46 transport plane operated on a local instrument training flight out of Sedalia AAF. The airplane crashed following the consecutive failure of both wings. Investigators speculated that the wings failed in an overstress situation during a possible unusual attitude recovery.
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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