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Date: | Monday 5 March 1945 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing B-29B Superfortress |
Owner/operator: | 4000th BU USAAF |
Registration: | 42-63598 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Other fatalities: | 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF, Dayton, Ohio -
United States of America
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Phase: | Standing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF (FFO/KFFO) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Bell-Atlanta B-29B-30-BA Superfortress 42-63598: Built under licence by Bell Aircraft Company, Marietta, Atlanta, Georgia. Delivered to the USAAF 31 January 1945. Assigned to 4000th Army Air Force Base Unit, Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF, Dayton, Ohio.
Written off March 5, 1945 in a ground accident at Daytom-Wright Patterson Field AAF, Dayton, Ohio. Aircraft damaged beyond repair by fire. Cause of accident was due to Lockheed C-60A Lodestar 42-55962, which was taking off from Dayton-Wright Patterson AAF, Dayton, Ohio on a test flight, when the pilot lost control of the airplane. It crashed into a hangar, in a huge explosion. Many explosions occurred, the hangar was destroyed as well as several aircraft, including
Bell P-59A Airacomet 44-2609;
North American P-51F Mustang 43-43333;
Republic P-47D Thunderbolt 42-8009;
Lockheed P-38G Lightning 42-12687;
Bell XP-63A Kingcobra 42-78835;
Boeing B-29B Superfortress 42-63598;
Douglas C-47A-10-DL 42-23357; and
Consolidated B-32 Dominator 42-10873.
All three crew members aboard the C-60A and five personnel in the hangar were killed in the accident. (It is not known of any - or all - were on board B-29 42-63598 at the time of the accident; hence all eight killed are listed as "other fatalities"). Those killed were:
1st Lt Elwin I. Brawner Jr.,
Pfc Eugene L. Fisher,
2nd Lt Robert E. Jackson,
Pfc John L. Ravegum,
Pvt Browder A. Richmond,
T/Sgt Russel P. Schryer,
Sgt Albert B. Weathers,
Sgt William W. Wilson.
Sources:
1.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1942_3a.html 2. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1945/archives/crash-of-a-lockheed-c-60-lodestar-in-wright-patterson-afb-8-killed/]
3.
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19450305-4 4. Spokane Daily Chronicle - Mar 6, 1945
5.
http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1942_3.html .
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jul-2017 23:19 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Jul-2017 23:22 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
13-Feb-2020 17:34 |
Iwosh |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |