| Date: | Friday 15 September 1961 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-4-1009 |
| Owner/operator: | Air Katanga |
| Registration: | OO-ADN |
| MSN: | 43099 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1947 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Elizabethville Airport (FBM) -
 Congo (Democratic Republic)
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
| - |
DC-4 OO-ADN was parked directly in front of the tower at the Elizabethville Airport (now Lubumbashi). A Katangese Air Force Fouga Magister (93) attacked the airport and dropped two 100 lb. bombs one of which made a direct hit on the DC-4. The Fouga then circled and strafed the field causing much confusion but minor damage.
Sources:
Alan Yeadon
Images:
photo (c) Alan Yeadon; Elizabethville; 15 September 1961
photo (c) Alan Yeadon; Elizabethville; 15 September 1961
photo (c) Alan Yeadon; Elizabethville; 15 September 1961
photo (c) Alan Yeadon; Elizabethville; 15 September 1961
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