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| Date: | Monday 8 December 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Australian Air Force - RAAF |
| Registration: | A24-15 |
| MSN: | 322 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Port Moresby -
 Papua New Guinea
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Crashed into hill.
The following 11 Squadron RAAF Personnel lost their lives in this crash:
12305 Cpl Neville Lawrence ERNST; 33987 AC1 Arthur Wallace MAGEE;10436 LAC Charles James MATHESON; 12257 Cpl Eric John O'DONNELL; 39219 George Robert PETERSON; 557 FL Nelson Prior REID; 34551 AC1 Keith Mighell SIDEY; 2622 FO Lincoln James SLOAN.
Sources:
Australian Military Aircraft Serials and Aircraft History web site
Ross Geissmann (E-mai; 10-7-2014)
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