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| Date: | Sunday 5 March 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | KG396 |
| MSN: | 12426 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 19 km SSE of Reykjavík/Keflavík-Meeks Field (KEF) -
 Iceland
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Keflavík-Meeks Field (KEF/BIKF) |
Flew into high ground near Meeks Field, Iceland while descending in cloud during a Radio Range approach.
Conflicting reports suggests two or three crew members were killed.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
rafcommands.com
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