ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337931
Date: | Monday 2 July 1945 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | KN344 |
MSN: | 32660/15912 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | off Samarai Island -
Papua New Guinea
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, QLD (TSV/YBTL) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed due to bad weather. Aboard was freight for the Royal Australian Navy.
The airplane operated on a cargo flight from Mascot Airport, Australia to Momote Airfield, PNG with en route stops at Townsville-Garbutt Airfield and an airfield in the Milne Bay area.
Crew:
Pilot F/Lt Charles Raymond Kerferd Young, 425802 RAAF (KIA)
Navigator F/O Frederick Dunlop Rutledge, 426164 RAAF (KIA)
Radio W/O Kenneth Clement Bevan, 1140088 RAF (KIA).
Sources:
pacificwrecks.com
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