| Status: | |
| Date: | Monday 7 February 1944 |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Operator: | Royal Australian Air Force - RAAF |
| Registration: | A24-34 |
| MSN: | 1044 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | off Malakua [Jacquinot Bay] ( Papua New Guinea)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Cairns Airport, QLD (CNS/YBCS), Australia |
| Cairns Airport, QLD (CNS/YBCS), Australia |
The RAAF Catalina flying boat departed Cairns at approximately 23:50 hours, February 6, 1944 on an mission to attack Kavieng, Papua New Guinea.
A parachute flare inside the airplane ignited prematurely when its altitude setting ring was being adjusted. In order to prevent premature detonation of other ordnance or mid-air structural failure from fire, the crew carried out a ditching at Jacquinot Bay. All on board survived and made it ashore.
, with the crew members making shore in the vicinity of Malakua. Four crew members managed to escape, but the rest were taken prisoner by the Japanese.
Classification:
Ditching
Sources:
» Australian Military Aircraft Serials and Aircraft History web site» Pacific Wrecks - PBY Catalina Serial Number A24-34 Tail FJ-A
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