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| Date: | Friday 22 June 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-1-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 43-16230 |
| MSN: | 20696 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Irian Jaya -
 Indonesia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Merauke-Mopah Airport (MKQ/WAKK) |
| Biak (unknown airport) |
The C-47B transport plane departed Australia carrying passengers returning from leave and a cargo of fresh food. The airplane landed at Merauke Airfield in the evening and took off again at roughly 21:40 hours, bound for Biak. That night, there were stratocumulus cloud cover to 12,000' with 6-8/10 cover and intermittent rains. Last radio contact was at 22:40. The aircraft failed to arrive at Biak and searches were fruitless.
On March 2, 1962 the wreckage of this C-47 was discovered on a mountain peak at 12,000 feet.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Pacificwrecks.com
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