26 November "Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 26 (UP) - Coast Guard aircraft and small Navy boats tonight began a search of the ocean off Florence, Ore., for six crewmen who parachuted during a gale from a C-46 transport plane enroute from California to McChord field, Wash." 27 November Douglas C-47B-1-DL Skytrain 43-16261 (c/n 20727), of Air Transport Command, piloted by 1st Lt. William H. Myers, disappeared during a flight from Singapore to Butterworth, British Malaya. The wreckage was found on a mountain slope in the forest reserve area of Bukit Bubu, near Beruas, Perak, Malaysia. The remains of the crew were recovered in August 2015. Also killed were Flight Officer Judson Baskett and PFC Donald Jones. 5 December Flight 19, a training flight of 5 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers manned by 14 US Navy and Marine personnel from Ft Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida, vanished over the Bermuda Triangle under mysterious circumstances. The Avengers were four TBM-1Cs (BuNo 45714, FT3; BuNo 46094, FT36; BuNo 46325, FT81 and BuNo 73209, FT117) and TBM-3, BuNo 23307 (FT28). A US Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner (BuNo 59225), carrying 13 sailors, departed from NAS Banana River in Florida to search for the missing planes and disappeared after a large mid-air explosion was seen near its last reported position. 13 December A captured Dornier Do 335A-12 Pfiel (coded 121, werke nummer 240121), taken to England, was written off. 16 December The second of two prototypes of the Douglas XB-42 Mixmaster (43-50225) on a routine flight out of Bolling Field in Washington, D.C. quickly experienced a landing-gear extension problem, failure of the port engine and (as the coolant temperature rose) failure of the starboard engine. Maj. Hayduck bailed out at 1,200 feet, Lt. Col. Haney at 800 feet, and pilot Lt. Col. (later Major General) Fred J. Ascani (after crawling aft to jettison the pusher propellers) at 400 feet. All three survived, and the plane crashed in Oxen Hill, Maryland. The secret, jettisonable propellers caused a problem for authorities in explaining what witnesses on the ground thought was the aircraft exploding. A fuel-management problem was speculated, but not proven. January–March 1946 1 January Budd RB-1 Conestoga NC45347 (c/n 003, ex-BuNo 39294), one of twelve purchased from the War Assets Administration by National Skyway Freight Corporation (former American Volunteer Group members) for $28,642 each when new C-47s cost about $100,000, belly-landed on a Bluefield, Virginia golf course