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| Date: | Tuesday 19 September 1944 |
| Time: | 23:00 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-107397 |
| MSN: | 27084 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 19 km NNW of Speculator, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Syracuse AAF, NY (SYR/KSYR) |
| Syracuse AAF, NY (SYR/KSYR) |
Flew into the side of Blue Ridge Mountain at an elevation of 3200 feet. The airplane operated on a navigation training flight. The wreckage was found in August 1945.
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