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| Date: | Wednesday 24 February 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46 Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-5176 |
| MSN: | 26378 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-43 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Buffalo, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Buffalo Niagara International Airport, NY (BUF/KBUF) |
The C-46 burst into flames when the plane made an emergency landing at Buffalo.
Sources:
Pilots Escape in Crash Of Curtiss Transport (Salamanca Republican-Press, 1943-02-25)
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