| Status: | |
| Datum: | Mittwoch 1 Dezember 1943 |
| Flugzeugtyp: |  Douglas C-47A-30-DL (DC-3) |
| Fluggesellschaft: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Kennzeichen: | 42-23659 |
| Werknummer: | 9521 |
| Baujahr: | 1943 |
| Besatzung: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 4 |
| Fluggäste: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 0 |
| Gesamt: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 4 |
| Sachschaden: | Zerstört |
| Konsequenzen: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Unfallort: | nahe Port Moresby ( Papua Neuguinea)
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| Flugphase: | Unbekannt (UNK) |
| Betriebsart: | Militär |
| Flug von: | Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, QLD (TSV/YBTL), Australien |
| Port Moresby (unknown airport), Papua Neuguinea |
Both engines of the C-47A transport plane failed at 4,000 feet and the aircraft force landed in a swamp near Galley Reach and the Vanapa River.
Informationsquelle:
» PacificWrecks» The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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