| Date: | Saturday 7 December 1968 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-7C |
| Owner/operator: | North American Aircraft Trading |
| Registration: | VR-BCY |
| MSN: | 45545/1024 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Uli Airstrip -
 Nigeria
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | São Tomé Island Airport (TMS/FPST) |
| Uli Airstrip |
Crashed during a single engine approach to Uli Airstrip during relief flight for Caritas.
The aircraft was part of the Biafran Airlift, which was an international humanitarian relief effort that transported food and medicine to Biafra during the 1967-70 secession war from Nigeria.
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