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| Date: | Monday 8 November 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-53D-DO (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-68809 |
| MSN: | 11736 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 29 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | within Albania -
 Albania
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA/LICC) |
| Bari Airport (BRI/LIBD) |
The aircraft became lost in a heavy snow storm en route between Catania and Bari, Italy. The aircraft drifted off course and a wheels-up landing was carried out in Albania.
Sources:
DDA Magazine Nr. 6, 2002
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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