Date:	Thursday 24 December 1959
Time:	05:00
Type:	Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Garuda Indonesia Airways
Registration:	PK-GDV
MSN:	13535
Year of manufacture:	1944
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	5 km from Palembang -   Indonesia
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Palembang-Talang Betoetoe Airport (PLM/WIPP)
Destination airport:	Pangkal Pinang Airport (PGK/WIKK)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
A no. 2 engine failure 13 minutes after takeoff forced the crew to return to Palembang. The aircraft crashed into a swamp short of Palembang.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of the right engine, a lack of precaution on the part of the captain and marginal weather. A contributing factor may have been the overloaded condition of the aircraft, however, not to such an extent that it forced the aircraft to descend to a dangerously low altitude."

ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 62-AN/57 (233-236)
The Singapore Free Press 26 December 1959, p1

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