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| Date: | Friday 7 September 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | KN584 |
| MSN: | 33217/16469 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Karen Hills -
 Myanmar
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Yangon-Mingaladon Airport (RGN/VYYY) |
| Taungoo (VYTO) |
The aircraft crashed in mountainous terrain in bad weather while en route from Yangon to Taungoo and Calcutta.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
In remembrance, WWII descendants seek closure in Yangon (Frontier Myanmar, 20-12-2016)
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