Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 AUG 1944 |
| Time: | 20:30 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-30-DL |
| Operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-23652 |
| C/n / msn: | 9514 |
| First flight: | 1943 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 24 / Occupants: 24 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 28 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 5 km (3.1 mls) W of Naper, NE (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Bruning Army Air Base, NE, United States of America |
| Pierre AAB, SD (PIR/KPIR), United States of America |
A Douglas C-47 transport plane was destroyed when it broke up in flight near Naper, NB. All four crew members and 24 passengers were killed. The flight encoutered a wall of thunderstorms. The pilot lost control of the airplane, probably due to severe thunderstorm and/or a lightning strike.
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Sources:
» Military aviation disasters : significant losses since 1908 / D. Gero, 1999
» USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
» Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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