Commando 41-24752

VARIANT: Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando

USAF SERIAL NUMBER (S/N): 41-24752

CURTISS CONSTRUCTION NUMBER (C/N): 26673

COMMANDO LINE NUMBER (L/N): CU313

FATE: Written off

  November 1943 to January 1944

  41-24752 - USAAF (USA)

10 November 1943

Delivered from the Curtiss-Wright factory in Buffalo, NY.

18 December 1943

Assigned to ATC India-China Wing.

1 January 1944

Crashed on Mount Yulong, near Lijiang, Yunnan, China after an engine failed (0/4 fatalities). [MACR 1630]

Enroute, an engine failed. The pilot was unable to maintain a safe altitude, so he instructed all crew to bail out. Without pilot, aircraft went out of control and crashed on the slope of Mount Yulong. While the aircraft was destroyed by impact forces, all four occupants were unhurt.

Pilot: Eugene E. Adams

11 January 1944

Condemned for salvage.