ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 338996
| Date: | Thursday 21 December 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | South African Air Force - SAAF |
| Registration: | KG498 |
| MSN: | 12820 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 23 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 16 km SSW of Torrettoria -
 Italy
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
The aircraft was evacuating wounded personnel from Athens to Italy and there were seven RAF/SAAF men and sixteen others on board. The pilot descended in cloud when uncertain of the aircraft's position and the aircraft struck a hill at a height of 1200 feet about 25 miles from its destination. There was a single survivor.
Sources:
WW2 Talk
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