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| Date: | Tuesday 14 March 1944 |
| Time: | 10:49 |
| Type: |  Lockheed Lodestar IA |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | HK980 |
| MSN: | 18-2024 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Bilbeis RAF Station -
 Egypt
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Bilbeis RAF Station |
Did not gain height on takeoff. The airplane ran across a ditch causing the undercarriage to collapse.
Sources:
The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
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