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We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.

Safety history

  • December 10, 1946AccidentHull loss

    Shortly after takeoff from runway 32, while in initial climb, the aircraft banked left and right, then nosed down and crashed in a paddy field. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and all 24 occupants, among them 3 civilians, were killed. The crew was completing a mail flight from Tachikawa AFB to Fukuoka with an intermediate stop in Osaka-Itami Airport. Weather conditions at the time of the accident were considered as marginal and it is believed that the left engine was not running at i

    Curtiss C-46 Commando · 24 fatalities