| Date: | Saturday 17 October 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju-52/3m |
| Owner/operator: | Gibbes Sepik Airways |
| Registration: | VH-BUU |
| MSN: | J7256 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1941 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Baiyer River Airfield -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | |
| Baiyer River Airfield |
A Junkers Ju-52/3m was damaged after it groundlooped on landing at Baiyer River, PNG. The airplane swung into a drainage ditch.
The airplane was withdrawn from use and stripped for spares.
Sources:
VH-BUU Junkers Ju 52/3m
PacificWrecks.com
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