| Date: | Tuesday 26 January 1960 |
| Time: | 12:30 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH-114 Heron 2D |
| Owner/operator: | Transportes Aéreos de Timor |
| Registration: | CR-TAI |
| MSN: | 14132 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | NW off Bathurst Island, NT -
 Australia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Darwin Airport, NT (DRW/YPDN) |
| Baucau-English Madeira Airport (BCH/WPEC) |
The Heron took off from Darwin at 11:33 for a 1hour and 20 minutes-flight to Baucau. At 12:10 there was radio contact with a company DH-104 Dove (CR-TAG) flying from Baucau to Darwin. This was the last contact with the flight before it crashed into the sea, NW of Bathurst Island.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "It was concluded that the most likely chief cause of the accident lay in the fact that the pilot was flying the aircraft in bad visibility conditions for which he was not duly qualified, and it was presumed that reasons of a psychological nature accounted for the accident."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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Images:
photo (c) Peter; Darwin Airport, NT (DRW/YPDN); 07 January 1960
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