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| Date: | Saturday 11 November 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-30-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-23605 |
| MSN: | 9467 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | between Morotai and Numfor -
 Indonesia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Pitu/Morotai Island Airport (OTI/WAMR) |
| Numfor Airport (FOO) |
Missing on flight between Pitu Airfield on Morotai Island and Numfor Airfield.
The airplane was one of four C-47's engaged in a flights from Morotai to Sansapor, then back to Morotai and after that continuing to Numfor. The aircraft went missing on the last leg of the flight.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
MACR
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