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| Date: | Friday 17 March 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF |
| Registration: | FL650 |
| MSN: | 12079 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off British Columbia -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Patricia Bay RCAF Station, BC (YYJ/CYYJ) |
Douglas Dakota III FL650 operated on a night navigation exercise. The airplane took off at 19:40 hours. Last contact was at 21:58 hours. Despite an exhaustive search for aircraft and crew nothing was found and the they were classed as missing believed killed.
Two oxygen cylinders of a type used by this aircraft were later recovered in the Pearse Island Group, northern Vancouver Island, and might be the only trace found of this aircraft.
Sources:
Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers RCAF FK177 to FL999
evasioncomete.org
rafcommands.com
rafcommands.com
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