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1944 aviation accident

TWA Flight 277
Accident
A C-54 Skymaster similar to the accident aircraft
Date	June 20, 1944
Summary	Spatial disorientation
Site	Fort Mountain, Northeast Piscataquis, Piscataquis County, Maine, USA
Aircraft type	C-54 Skymaster
Operator	Transcontinental and Western Airways
Registration	41-37227
Flight origin	Stephenville, Newfoundland
Destination	Washington D.C.
Occupants	7
Passengers	1
Crew	6
Fatalities	7
Survivors	0

Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 277 was a C-54 Skymaster en route from Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, to Washington, D.C., on June 20, 1944. The aircraft crashed on Fort Mountain, in Maine's Baxter State Park. All seven on board died, including six civilian crewmembers and one United States Army Air Force passenger.

The flight was a scheduled contract flight for Air Transport Command. After taking off from Newfoundland, the aircraft encountered severe weather, including heavy rains, high winds, and lightning-induced radio static over New Brunswick and Maine which blew the aircraft 70 miles (110 km) off course. The pilot, Roger "Rolley" Inman, apparently did not realize that the aircraft, flying at less than 4,000 feet, had been blown into mountainous territory with peaks in excess of 5,000 feet. The aircraft's starboard wing struck a ridge of boulders at an elevation of 3,700 feet (1,100 m) on the mountain and the aircraft impacted the ground and was destroyed.

References

Arsenault, Mark; Tony DePaul (June 1, 2009). "Mountainside monument: WWII plane wreck lies in place". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 2, 2009.
"C-54A "Skymaster" 41-37227". Aviation Archaeology in Maine. Retrieved September 21, 2009.

45°57′35″N 68°58′5″W / 45.95972°N 68.96806°W / 45.95972; -68.96806

v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in 1944 (1944)
Feb 10 American Airlines Flight 2Mar 21 Moordown air disasterMay 7 West Chester B-25 crashJun 20 TWA Flight 277Jul 11 South Portland A-26 Invader crashAug 23 Freckleton air disaster
1943 ◄ ► 1945

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Accidents and incidents

1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash
Flight 6 (1935)
Flight 1 (1936)
Flight 15A (1937)
1938 Yosemite TWA crash
Flight 3 (1942)
Flight 277 (1944)
Flight 513 (1946)
Flight 6963 (1946)
Flight 903 (1950)
1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision
Flight 260 (1955)
Flight 400 (1956)
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
Flight 891 (1959)
1960 New York mid-air collision
Flight 529 (1961)
Flight 800 (1964)
1965 Carmel mid-air collision
Flight 553 (1967)
Flight 159 (1967)
Flight 128 (1967)
TWA Flight 840 hijacking (1969)
Dawson's Field hijackings (1970)
Flight 742 (1973)
Flight 841 (1974)
Flight 514 (1974)
Flight 37 (1975)
Flight 355 (1976)
Flight 541 (1978)
Flight 841 (1979)
Flight 847 (1985)
Flight 840 bombing (1986)
Flight 843 (1992)
Flight 427 (1994)
Flight 800 (1996)

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1940s
1940	Lovettsville air disaster (August 1940)
1941	Eastern Air Lines Flight 21 (February 1941) Northwest Airlines Flight 5 (October 1941)
1942	TWA Flight 3 (January 1942) American Airlines Flight 28 (October 1942)
1943	Pan Am Flight 1104 (January 1943) American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Ohio) (July 1943) American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Missouri) (October 1943) Tamaqua, PA crash (November 1943)
1944	American Airlines Flight 2 (February 1944) TWA Flight 277 (June 1944) South Portland A-26 Invader crash (July 1944)
1945	American Airlines Flight 6001 (January 1945) Eastern Air Lines Flight 45 (July 1945) National Airlines Flight 16 (October 1945)
1946	Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 105 (January 1946) Mount Tom B-17 crash (July 9 1946) TWA Flight 513 (July 11 1946)
1947	United Air Lines Flight 521 (May 29 1947) Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 (May 30 1947) Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410 (June 1947) United Air Lines Flight 608 (October 24 1947) Pan Am Flight 923 (October 26 1947)*
1948	Mantell UFO incident (January 7 1948) Los Gatos DC-3 crash (January 28 1948) Delta Air Lines Flight 705 (March 10 1948) Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 (March 12 1948) United Air Lines Flight 624 (June 1948) Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash (July 1948) Northwest Airlines Flight 421 (August 1948) Georgia USAF Boeing B-29 crash (October 1948) Airborne Transport DC-3 disappearance (December 1948)
1949	Strato-Freight Curtiss C-46A crash (June 1949) Standard Air Lines Flight 897R (July 1949) Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 (November 1 1949) American Airlines Flight 157 (November 29 1949)
This list is incomplete. An asterisk (*) denotes an incident that took place in a U.S. territory, including Alaska and Hawaii prior to statehood. 1930–1939 ◄ 1940–1949 ► 1950–1959

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