ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329971
Date: | Monday 21 January 1974 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-85-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Trans Nusantara Airways |
Registration: | PK-GDC |
MSN: | 20041 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 16 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Broome Airport, WA (BME) -
Australia
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Broome Airport, WA (BME/YBRM) |
Narrative:The C-47 suffered an accident while landing in monsoonal rain at Broome, Australia. The undercarriage collapsed and both propellers separated from the engines.
At the time it was operating a charter for the Burmah Oil Company carrying oil rig workers to Portuguese Timor.
Sources:
South East Asia 1960s-1970s - Indonesian Douglas DC-3s Aviation News 01.03.1974
The Canberra Times 22 January 1974, p3 Location
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