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| Date: | Tuesday 19 September 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | FD865 |
| MSN: | 9411 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Capo Carbonara -
 Italy
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Napoli-Capodichino Airport (NAP/LIRN) |
| Cagliari-Elmas Airport (CAG/LIEE) |
A Douglas Dakota III transport plane operated by No. 267 Squadron RAF departed Bari on a routine flight to Napoli, Cagliari and return. The aircraft went missing during the second leg of the flight.
Within two days the Navy picked up wreckage washed ashore off Cape Carbonara.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Lostaircraft.com
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