ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 338995
| Date: | Thursday 21 December 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-15-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Aeroflot |
| Registration: | CCCP-L870 |
| MSN: | 12707 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | between Rzeszów and Nowy Targ -
 Poland
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Rzeszów Airport (RZE/EPRZ) |
The C-47A transport plane operated on a supply mission from Rzeszów for Polish partisans in the area of Nowy Targ when it was probably shot down by fighters of the German Air Force on the return leg. The aircraft crashed somewhere between Nowy Targ and Rzeszów. The wreck was never found.
Sources:
Soviet Transports
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