Date:	Tuesday 3 March 1942
Time:	10:30
Type:	Douglas DC-3-194B
Owner/operator:	KNILM-Kon. Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij
Registration:	PK-AFV
MSN:	1965
Year of manufacture:	1937
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 12
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Unlawful Interference
Location:	Carnot Bay, WA -   Australia
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Bandung Airport (BDO/WICC)
Destination airport:	Broome Airport, WA (BME/YBRM)

Narrative:
Three Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero aircraft returning to base after attacking Broome fired at the aircraft which force landed at Carnot Bay, 90 km N of Broome. Three passengers and one crew member (J.F.M. Blaauw, mechanic) died during a following strafing.

Coupar, Anne Robertson: The Smirnoff Story, 1960
Wills, Juliet: The diamond Dakota Mystery, 2006
Opsomming van de bekende ongevallen en incidenten in 1940 / H.Dekker

photo (c) Stadsarchief Amsterdam; in flight; 1937; (publicdomain)

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