Incident Overview
Date: Thursday 19 August 1943
Aircraft Type: Curtiss C-46A-15-CU Commando
Owner/operator: United States Army Air Force – USAAF
Registration Number: 41-12430
Location: –
ÿ Unknown country
Phase of Flight: Unknown
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Component Affected: EngineEngine
Category: Accident
An engine failure resulted in a forced evacuation of all crew members from a C-46 aircraft during operations in the China-Burma-India theatre. The aircraft crashed.An engine failure resulted in a forced evacuation of all crew members from a C-46 aircraft during operations in the China-Burma-India theatre. The aircraft crashed.
Description
An engine failure forced all crew members to bail out. The C-46 crashed. The exact location is unknown, but it happened in the China-Burma-India theatre of operations.
Source of Information
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