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| Date: | Saturday 19 August 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | KG789 |
| MSN: | 25466/14021 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Gusau -
 Nigeria
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Accra-Kotoka Airport (ACC/DGAA) |
| Kano International Airport (KAN/DNKN) |
Damaged beyond repair in a forced landing while on a delivery flight at Gusau, Nigeria.
The aircraft encountered severe storms en route. The crew lost all navigational and wireless aids and it was decided to perform a wheels up forced landing
Sources:
Air Force, Volume 44, No.19, Oct. 10, 2002
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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