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| Date: | Wednesday 17 November 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 04473 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Gulf of Mexico -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Flew into water while circling a merchant ship in Gulf of Mexico and exploded.
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