Fayetteville - Fayetteville

On January 14, 1949 at 12:00 AM, Fayetteville - Fayetteville experienced a crash involving Fairchild C-82 Packet, operated by United States Air Force - USAF, with the event recorded near Harnett North Carolina.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The aircraft left Fayetteville-Pope AFB for a local training sortie with 36 paratroopers on board. En route, the crew encountered an unexpected situation and ordered all passengers to bail out. After the last paratrooper evacuated the cabin, the aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a field located in Harnett, about 17 miles northeast of the airbase. All three crew members were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration 44-23010, MSN 10054, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 35.3881°, -78.8625°.