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| Date: | Monday 19 March 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | KN343 |
| MSN: | 32659/15911 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 28 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 200 km S off Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea -
 Pacific Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Port Moresby-Jackson Field (POM/AYPY) |
| Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, QLD (TSV/YBTL) |
The aircraft ditched into the Coral Sea following a failure of both engines.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Australia @ War (ozatwar.com)
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