Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 26 MAR 1942 |
| Type: | Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra |
| Operating for: | Royal Australian Air Force - RAAF |
| Leased from: | KNILM-Kon. Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij |
| Registration: | PK-AFM |
| C/n / msn: | 1411 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Katherine River (Australia) |
| Phase: | () |
| Nature: | |
| Departure airport: | Brisbane International Airport, QLD (BNE/YBBN), Australia |
| Batchelor Air Base, NT (YBCR), Australia |
Crash-landed on trees following fuel exhaustion en route Brisbane-Bachelor.
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Brisbane International Airport, QLD to Batchelor Air Base, NT as the crow flies is 2784 km (1740 miles).
Distance from Brisbane International Airport, QLD to Batchelor Air Base, NT as the crow flies is 2784 km (1740 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
