Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 07 APR 1945 |
| Time: | 13:48 |
| Type: | Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando |
| Operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 43-47187 |
| C/n / msn: | 258 |
| First flight: | |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 3 km (1.9 mls) SW of Lawrenceville-George AAF, IL (LWV) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Lawrenceville-George AAF, IL (LWV/KLWV), United States of America |
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The transport plane entered a dive from a height of about 400 feet after takeoff from runway 23 and crashed. It appeared that the elevator gust locks were still in place.
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Sources:
» Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945, Vol. 3: August 1944-December 1945 / Anthony J. Mireles
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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.
