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| Date: | Wednesday 26 April 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-25-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-24710 |
| MSN: | 26631 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Sookerating Air Base -
 India
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Sookerating Air Base |
| Sookerating Air Base |
The C-46 crashed during a test flight after a taxiing accident left prop repair. During test hop the left prop over feathered and went into reverse pitch. Pilot was able to partially straighten aircraft out to crash land.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
Images:
photo (c) Rebecca Robertson Haskett; Sookerating; 26 April 1944
photo (c) Rebecca Robertson Haskett; Sookerating; 26 April 1944
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