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| Date: | Sunday 7 February 1960 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-53D-DO (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria |
| Registration: | 209 |
| MSN: | 11643 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Straits of Florida -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV/MUHA) |
| Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA) |
A Cuban DC-3, named "Sierra Maestra", disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico during a ferry flight from Havana to Miami. The airplane, reportedly used for flights by Fidel Castro, the Prime Minister of Cuba, was being flown to Miami for propeller adjustment works.
A distress message was received at 14:10 but the plane was not located after a search. A jacket of the co-pilot spotted south of Miami 11 February 1960.
Sources:
El Siglo de Torreon 9 February 1960, p3
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Feb 8, 1960
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Diario de la Marina - February 10, 1960
Diario de la Marina - February 12, 1960
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