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Contributor -
Jack Gross
Crashed at Dergaon, Assam Valley, India 13 Jun 45. Pilot
Clifford Peterson reported that their fuel gauges were reading low, but that
that reading was inconsistent with their fuel load and flight time, so they
ignored it. When they lost an engine, they requested priority landing at Dergaon,
but it was refused. While in the landing pattern, they lost the remaining three
engines and put the plane down in a tree-less field. Things were going "well"
until they hit a raised roadbed with the belly of the plane which flipped the
plane around. Everyone walked away with minor injuries.
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