ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334473
Date: | Monday 3 June 1957 |
Time: | 17:30 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 43-15995 |
MSN: | 20461 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near McGrath, AK -
United States of America
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The C-47A transport plane crashed while attempting an emergency landing on a small airstrip after engine trouble. The aircraft impacted wooded terrain. Two occupants were killed, two were injured and five were unhurt.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
The Panama American, June 04, 1957 Revision history:
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