ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341751
| Date: | Saturday 14 June 1941 |
| Time: | 08:10 |
| Type: |  Lockheed 18-08-01 Lodestar |
| Owner/operator: | South African Air Force - SAAF |
| Registration: | 241 |
| MSN: | 18-2045 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dodo River -
 Nigeria
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Damaged beyond repair following a forced landing when the instruments became unserviceable during a thunderstorm.
The Lodestar came down in a swamp at the entrance of the Dodo River, Nigeria. The airplane was en route from Bathurst, Gambia to South Africa.
Sources:
The Lockheed Twins / P.J. Marsden
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