ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339360
Date: | Monday 25 September 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-93499 |
MSN: | 13417 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | between Lae and Nadzab -
Papua New Guinea
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Lae Aerodrome |
Destination airport: | Lae-Nadzab Airport (LAE/AYNZ) |
Narrative:The Douglas C-47A transport plane took off from Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, Australia at 11:22 on a flight bound for Nadzab Airfield. The aircraft landed at Lae Airfield at 16:25, then took off for Nadzab (No.1) Airfield at 16:50 but failed to arrive. Last contact was by radio for routine take off clearance. The aircraft was presumed lost somewhere between Lae and Nadzab.
Sources:
Pacificwrecks.com The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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