ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336313
Date: | Wednesday 5 October 1949 |
Time: | 11:00 |
Type: | Douglas C-47D (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 43-16386 |
MSN: | 20852 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Mount Mitchell, NC -
United States of America
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Washington-Bolling AFB, DC (BOF/KBOF) |
Destination airport: | Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM/KBFM) |
Narrative:A USAF Douglas C-47 transport plane was destroyed in an accident on Mount Mitchell, NC, USA. All nine on board were killed.
The airplane departed Washington-Bolling AFB, DC (BOF) at 08:55 on a flight to Mobile, AL. En route it flew into the forested slope of the cloud-shrouded 6684 ft high Mount Mitchell.
The wreckage was located after two days.
Sources:
The Evening Independent - Oct 7, 1949 Location
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