ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337772
| Date: | Wednesday 15 August 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46D Commando |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 44-78221 |
| MSN: | 33617 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 5 km from Myitkyina -
 Myanmar
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ledo Airfield |
| Myitkyina (unknown airport) |
The C-46 was transporting empty 55 gallon gas drums from Ledo to Myitkyina when it descended below minimum altitude in instrument flight conditions. The aircraft struck communications lines, hit railroad tracks, and cartwheeled across rice fields and through bushes about three miles from the airstrip.
Sources:
findagrave.com
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