Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 MAY 1950 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47B-30-DK Dakota C.4 |
| Operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | KN543 |
| C/n / msn: | 16399/33147 |
| First flight: | 1945 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Habbaniya RAF Station (Iraq) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Habbaniya RAF Station, Iraq |
The Dakota suffered a failure of both engines while on approach to RAF Habbaniya. The airplane crash-landed.
Sources:
» Broken Wings : Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents / James J. Halley
» Last take-off : a record of RAF aircraft losses 1950 to 1953 / C. Cummings
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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.
