Date:	Saturday 7 March 1936
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide
Owner/operator:	Nederlandse Nieuw Guinea Petroleum Maatschappij
Registration:	PK-AKW
MSN:	6294
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Babo Airfield, Maccluer Gulf, Babo, Iriyan Jaya Province -   Indonesia
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Survey
Departure airport:	Babo Airfield, Maccluer Gulf, Babo, Iriyan Jaya Province, Indonesia
Destination airport:	Babo Airfield, Maccluer Gulf, Babo, Iriyan Jaya Province, Indonesia
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Written off when the aircraft was returning from a mapping assignment. During landing at Babo airstrip, Maccluer Gulf, Babo, Iriyan Jaya Province, Dutch New Guinea (now Indonesia) on 7.3.36, whilst inbound to Babo. During landing, it flipped over and had to be written off. Aircraft came down at approximate co-ordinates 02°32′59″S 133°25′00″E. Pilot, Captain Tideman, and the two other crew members suffered only minor injuries. In April of the same year a Sikorsky S-38 amphibian was sent to Babo as a replacement for the unfortunate Rapide.

Babo Airfield is a disused airfield located on the southern shore of Maccluer Gulf at Babo in Indonesia. The airfield is located in an isolated low-lying swamp area. The airfield was destroyed by bombing in 1944 when under Japanese occupation.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babo_Airfield
2. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
3. http://wiki.scramble.nl/index.php/De_Havilland_DH-89_Dragon_Rapide
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_PK-.html
5. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-babo
6. https://thejavagoldblog.wordpress.com/background-info-book-1/airlines/knilm-the-airline-of-the-dutch-east-indies/knilm-fleet-list/
7. "Flying Trio Leave Holland On Sunday" The Straits Times, 30 August 1935, Page 13: http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19350830-1.2.77?ST=1&AT
8. http://www.hdekker.info/registermap/TWEEDE.htm
9. https://www.hdekker.info/Nieuwe%20map/1936.htm#07.03.1936
10. De locomotief 10 March 1936 p.3: https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=MMKB23:003463092:mpeg21:p00003
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babo_Airfield

c/no.6294: C of A 5048 issued 30.8.35 to Asiatic Petroleum Co; delivered ex-Croydon to Rotterdam 31.8.35 (possibly delivered marked as PH-AKV). Formally registered PH-AKW 4.9.35 to Kononklijke Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij [KNILM]. Modified on arrival at Rotterdam for air survey work. Re-registered in the Dutch East Indies as PK-AKW 24.1.36 to KNILM, but actually operated by Nederlandse Nieuw Guinea Petroleum Maatschappij (NNGPM).

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
13-Dec-2011 03:13	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
13-Dec-2011 04:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ]
10-Jan-2017 16:40	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, ]
24-Oct-2017 23:33	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Registration, ]
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