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| Date: | Sunday 26 March 1944 |
| Time: | 02:08 |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-60A-5-LO Lodestar |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-55974 |
| MSN: | 18-2435 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,6 km SE of Amarillo AAF, TX (AMA) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Amarillo AAF, TX (AMA/KAMA) |
| Monroe Municipal Airport, LA (MLU/KMLU) |
The Lockheed C-60A took off from Amarillo on a night-time navigation training mission to Monroe, LA and return. Shortly after takeoff control was lost and the airplane slammed into terrain after nosing over.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 2: July 1943-July 1944 / Anthony J. Mireles
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