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Date: | vendredi 17 mars 1944 |
Type/Sous-type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
Compagnie: | Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF |
Immatriculation: | FL650 |
Numéro de série: | 12079 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1943 |
Equipage: | victimes: 3 / à bord: 3 |
Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 0 |
Total: | victimes: 3 / à bord: 3 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Disparu |
Conséquences: | Presumed damaged beyond repair |
Lieu de l'accident: | de British Columbia ( Canada)
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Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
Nature: | Militaire |
Aéroport de départ: | Patricia Bay RCAF Station, BC (YYJ/CYYJ), Canada |
Aéroport de destination: | ? |
Détails: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:
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