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| Date: | Tuesday 9 January 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-65-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-100479 |
| MSN: | 18942 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Biak -
 Indonesia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Biak-Boroekoe Royal Dutch Navy Air Station |
| Peleliu Airfield |
The C-47A transport plane took off from Boroekoe Airfield on Biak on a flight bound for Peleliu Airfield.
Weather was a heavy overcast with a ceiling at 1,000'. Elsewhere, the sky was clear. After take off, the airplane made a turn to the right instead of the left with the rest of the formation.
The wreckage was located on March 11, 1945 in a swamp on the north side of Biak.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
pacificwrecks.com
MACR
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