| Date: | Monday 21 January 1974 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-85-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Trans Nusantara Airways, lsf Garuda Indonesia Airways |
| Registration: | PK-GDC |
| MSN: | 20041 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 16 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Broome Airport, WA (BME) -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
| Broome Airport, WA (BME/YBRM) |
The C-47 suffered an accident while landing in monsoonal rain at Broome, Australia. The undercarriage collapsed and both propellers separated from the engines.
At the time it was operating a charter for the Burmah Oil Company carrying oil rig workers to Portuguese Timor.
Sources:
South East Asia 1960s-1970s - Indonesian Douglas DC-3s
Aviation News 01.03.1974
The Canberra Times 22 January 1974, p3
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