ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 307305
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| Date: | Saturday 2 October 1948 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Republic F-84B Thunderjet |
| Owner/operator: | 55th FS, 20th FG, USAF |
| Registration: | 46-635 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 7 miles North-East of Wrens, Jefferson County, Georgia -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Shaw AFB, Sumter, South Carolina (SSC/KSSC) |
Republic F-84B-31-RE Thunderjet 46-635, 55th FS, 20th FG, USAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) October 2 1948 due to forced landing in adverse weather conditions, 7 miles North-East of Wrens, Jefferson County, Georgia. Pilot Captain Joseph F Huguenin USAF (AO-802921). Reportedly the wreckage was assigned in 1949 to the 3415th TTW USAF (presumably as an instructional airframe);
On October 2 1948 no fewer than five F-84Bs were wrecked in forced landings due to a storm over Georgia: 46-613, 46-630, 46-635, 46-642, and 46-643, all from the 55th FS, 20th FG at Shaw AFB, SC
Sources:
1. http://forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/F-84.html
2. http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1946.html
3. https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/rptAF55.asp?RecID=113904
4. http://www.accident-report.com/Yearly/1948/4810.html
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrens,_Georgia
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