ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327253
| Date: | Sunday 24 February 1985 |
| Time: | 17:30 |
| Type: |  Dornier 228-100 |
| Owner/operator: | Alfred Wegener Institut |
| Registration: | D-IGVN |
| MSN: | 7039 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | S of Dakhla -
 Western Sahara
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR/GOOY) |
| Lanzarote Airport (ACE/GCRR) |
The Dornier 228 named "Polar 3" was on a return flight (together with Do-228 "Polar 2") to Germany following a South Pole expedition. Both aircraft departed Dakar around 14:45 for a flight to Arrecife, Canary Islands. Last radio contact with Polar 3 was around 17:30. While overflying the Western Sahara, 5 minutes behind Polar 2 and at a lower altitude, Polar 3 was shot down by Frente Polisario guerrillas. They probably though the plane in question was a Moroccan spy plane. The Western Sahara territory was fully annexed by Morocco in 1979. A guerrilla war with the Polisario Front contesting Rabat's sovereignty ended in a 1991 cease-fire; a referendum on final status has been repeatedly postponed.
Sources:
Luchtvaartwereld nr.1, 1986 (p.19-20)
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