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| Date: | Thursday 8 July 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
| Registration: | FD888 |
| MSN: | 9540 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Gibraltar -
 Gibraltar
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Gibraltar RAF Station (GIB/LXGB) |
Overshot the runway on landing at Gibraltar and crashed into the sea.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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