Date:	Wednesday 20 October 1943
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-40-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-23965
MSN:	9827
Year of manufacture:	1943
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	NNE off Palmyra Island Atoll -   Pacific Ocean
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Honolulu-Hickam AFB, HI (HIK)
Destination airport:	Palmyra Island Atoll-Cooper Airport (PLPA)

Narrative:
Missing en route Palmyra Island. The last reported position was 80 km NNE of Palmyra Island, while flying on top of overcast.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
MACR

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