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| Date: | Sunday 19 October 1958 |
| Time: | 08:30 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-30-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 476560/FRAST |
| MSN: | 32892/16144 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 21 km E of Blantyre-Chileka Airport (BLZ) -
 Malawi
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Blantyre-Chileka Airport (BLZ/FWCL) |
| Antananarivo-Arivonimamo Airport (TNR/FMMA) |
Flew into the side of Chiradzulu Mountain.
Sources:
St. Joseph Gazette - Oct 20, 1958
Le livre d'or de l'aviation malgache/J.P.Pénette & C.Pénette Lohau
The Nyasaland Times 4-11-1958
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