Date:	Saturday 19 February 1944
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-60-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-24398
MSN:	10260
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	40 km from Dobodura -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Dobodura Airfield
Destination airport:	Finschhafen Airport (FIN)

Narrative:
The C-47A transport plane took off from Dobodura Airfield at 15:58 on a flight bound for Finschhafen Airfield, Papua New Guinea. At 16:30, the crew radioed that they were loosing altitude rapidly. The crew headed towards the sea but the airplane crash-landed near Cape Ward Hunt, some 40 km from Dobodura.

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