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| Date: | Monday 24 January 1944 |
| Time: | 09:09 |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-60A-1-LO Lodestar |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-32203 |
| MSN: | 18-2293 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 8 km NW of Farmersville, LA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
A total of fourteen trainer aircraft departed Selman AAF on individual navigation training missions to Hugo, TX and return.
At an altitude of about 2000 feet the Lockheed C-60 collided with a Beechcraft AT-7 Navigator (43-33303). Both aircraft crashed, killing all aboard.
Sources:
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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