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
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	8 km NE of Macon, GA -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Dunnellon AAB, FL
Destination airport:	Fort Benning-Lawson AAF, GA (LSF/KLSF)

Narrative:
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.

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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