ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337968
Date: | Saturday 23 June 1945 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | KN455 |
MSN: | 32927/16179 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Taintaihering, Sumsen -
Myanmar
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Struck cloud-shrouded terrain near Taintaihering, Sumsen, Myanmar. A pilot reported briefly seeing smoke coming from one engine before the airplane entered clouds.
The aircraft operated on a supply dropping mission to Myingan.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Warbirds of India (warbirds.in) Remembering The Men & Women Who Gave Their Lives In Two World Wars. Location
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