| Date: | Wednesday 18 January 1939 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed 14-H Super Electra |
| Owner/operator: | Guinea Airways Pty Ltd. |
| Registration: | VH-ABI |
| MSN: | 1418 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1938 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Katherine-Tindal Airport, NT (KTR) -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Katherine-Tindal Airport, NT (KTR/YPTN) |
| Adelaide Airport, SA (ADL/YPAD) |
The aircraftm, "Koranga", barely became airborne, lost altitude and crashed into a river.
Sources:
Northern Territory Library
The Lockheed Twins / P.J. Marsden
Location
Images:
photo (c) Mayse Young; nr Katherine-Tindal Airport, NT (KTR); 18 January 1939; (publicdomain)
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