ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-50-DL (DC-3) 9Q-CUP Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH)
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Date:Sunday 15 February 1970
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
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
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Aircraft damage: Damaged beyond repair
Location:Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport (FIH) (   Congo (Democratic Republic))
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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