Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 26 JAN 1945 |
| Time: | 06:00 |
| Type: | Lockheed C-60A-5-LO Lodestar |
| Operator: | Royal Australian Air Force - RAAF |
| Registration: | A67-6 |
| C/n / msn: | 18-2610 |
| First flight: | 1943 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Merauke-Mopah Airport (MKQ) (Indonesia) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Merauke-Mopah Airport (MKQ/WAKK), Indonesia |
| ? |
Ground-looped on takeoff following the burst of a tyre. The Lodestar caught fire.
Sources:
» The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
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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.
