Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 18 JAN 1946 |
| Type: | Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina |
| Operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 64029 |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Wake Island (U.S. Minor Outlying Islands) |
| Phase: | () |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Force landed near Wake Island. Crew rescued, sank by gunfire.
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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.
