ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340468
| Date: | Sunday 19 December 1943 |
| Time: | 09:20 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 43-30742 |
| MSN: | 13893 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 31 / Occupants: 31 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 2 km N of Canal Creek, QLD -
 Australia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Townsville Airport, QLD (TSV/YBTL) |
| Brisbane-Archerfield Airport, QLD (ACF/YBAF) |
The C-47 disintegrated and crashed some two hours after departure from Townsville-Garbutt Airfield. The airplane was part of the Allied Directorate of Air Transport (ADAT) fleet with call sign VH-CHR.
Sources:
Peter Dunn's Australia @ war
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