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| Date: | Monday 3 January 1944 |
| Time: | 00:29 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-DK Skytrain |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-92042 |
| MSN: | 11799 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 8 km NE of Macon, GA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Dunnellon AAB, FL |
| Fort Benning-Lawson AAF, GA (LSF/KLSF) |
Two C-47 transport planes took off from Dunnellon AAF at 17:15 on a routine transition flight. En route both planes lost sight of each other in instrument conditions. Due to poor weather, Lawson Field would close at 19:30. One of the C-47's landed at Lawson at 19:17. The other did not land and made sporadic radio contact with Atlanta. Last radio contact was at 21:50. The next day, the plane was found to have flown into a small ridge.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
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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