Date:	Wednesday 2 October 1957
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	43-15209
MSN:	19675
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	5 km N off Iwo Jima Air Base (IWO) -   Japan
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Iwo Jima Air Base (IWO/RJAW)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
The C-47A transport plane ditched in the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Iwo Jima Air Base.
All 13 occupants were rescued.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
The Panama American, October 4, 1957

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