Status: | |
Date: | Sunday 15 February 1970 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-50-DL (DC-3) |
Operator: | Air Congo |
Registration: | 9Q-CUP |
MSN: | 10063 |
First flight: | 1943 |
Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Total: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
Location: | Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH) ( Congo (Democratic Republic))
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Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | ? |
Destination airport: | ? |
Narrative:The Air Congo C-47, 9Q-CUP, was reportedly damaged beyond repair in an accident.
According to some reports, another C-47, 9Q-CUD (msn 9780), was lost on February 19, 1970. Possibly both are one and the same accident.
Sources:
» World Directory of Airliner Crashes
» The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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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.