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- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai abstract "The 1943 Liberator crash at Whenuapai was an aircraft accident in New Zealand during World War II. The C-87 Liberator Express aircraft, owned by the USAAF and operated by United Airlines, was transferring Japanese men, women and children of the Consular Corps, to exchange for Allied POWs. On 2 August 1943, it took off from Whenuapai Aerodrome runway 04 at 2:20 am, with rain and fog conditions at minimums for departure, and quickly passed through low stratus. Captain Herschel Laughlin’s gyro horizon had inadvertently been left caged – while the instrument displayed level flight, the aircraft entered a steepening bank to the left. The crew detected the problem in a few seconds, but as the aircraft was straightening up and levelling out, it hit the ground at about 322 km/h (200 mph), bounced a few times and exploded. The third bounce threw its first officer, R. John Wisda, out through the canopy; he rolled end over end about 100 metres (330 ft) through mud and reeds. A medic later found him trying to keep warm near a burning tyre. The major factors of the accident were the lack of a pre-flight checklist, and crew fatigue (126 flying hours in the last 26 days).The crash killed three of the five crew (United States nationals), and eleven of the twenty-five passengers (eight Japanese and three Thai nationals). Two additional passengers died later from injuries.The TSS Wahine took the surviving internees from Wellington to Sydney three months later.TVNZ covered the crash during the program Secret New Zealand in 2003, and posited the accident was covered up, due to concerns of reprisals against POWs.".
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- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai aircraftType Consolidated_C-87_Liberator_Express.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai caption "Gyro horizon from a B-24 Liberator".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai crew "5".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai date "1943-08-02".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai fatalities "16".
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- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai name "1943".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai occurrenceType "Accident".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai operator United_Airlines.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai origin RNZAF_Base_Auckland.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai passengers "25".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai survivors "14".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai tailNumber "41".
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai type Controlled_flight_into_terrain.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai subject Category:1943_in_New_Zealand.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai subject Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_caused_by_pilot_error.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai subject Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_1943.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai subject Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_New_Zealand.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai subject Category:History_of_Auckland.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai subject Category:United_Airlines_accidents_and_incidents.
- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai comment "The 1943 Liberator crash at Whenuapai was an aircraft accident in New Zealand during World War II. The C-87 Liberator Express aircraft, owned by the USAAF and operated by United Airlines, was transferring Japanese men, women and children of the Consular Corps, to exchange for Allied POWs. On 2 August 1943, it took off from Whenuapai Aerodrome runway 04 at 2:20 am, with rain and fog conditions at minimums for departure, and quickly passed through low stratus.".
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- 1943_Liberator_crash_at_Whenuapai depiction Consolidated_B-24_artificial_horizon.jpg.
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