Last updated: 1 December 2021
| Status: | |
| Date: | Friday 17 March 1944 |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF |
| Registration: | FL650 |
| MSN: | 12079 |
| First flight: | 1943 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Missing |
| Aircraft fate: | Presumed damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | off British Columbia ( Canada)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Patricia Bay RCAF Station, BC (YYJ/CYYJ), Canada |
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Douglas Dakota III FL650 operated on a night navigation exercise. The airplane took off at 19:40 hours. Last contact was at 21:58 hours. Despite an exhaustive search for aircraft and crew nothing was found and the they were classed as missing believed killed.
Two oxygen cylinders of a type used by this aircraft were later recovered in the Pearse Island Group, northern Vancouver Island, and might be the only trace found of this aircraft.
Sources:
» Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers RCAF FK177 to FL999» evasioncomete.org
» rafcommands.com
» rafcommands.com
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
