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| Date: | Wednesday 30 August 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Budd RB-1 Conestoga |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 39296 |
| MSN: | 005 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Chesapeake Bay, MD -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Ditched after both engines failed at 800 feet. Airplane sank on the bottom of the bay and abandoned.
Sources:
A Story of the Budd RB-1 Conestoga / by Nancy Canavan Heslop
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