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| Date: | Friday 16 October 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-18585 |
| MSN: | 4710 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Bodinumu -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Port Moresby-Wards Airfield |
| Port Moresby-Wards Airfield |
The C-47 transport plane operated on a supply drop mission for Australian Army troops in the area near Efogi, Papua New Guinea. The aircraft failed to return and was later found to have crashed into a stream bed near Bodinumu village.
Sources:
Pacificwrecks.com
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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