Date:	Monday 4 September 1944
Time:	11:40
Type:	Douglas Dakota III (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	South African Air Force - SAAF
Registration:	KG471
MSN:	12583
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,2 km ENE of Delabole, Cornwall -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Paris (unknown airport)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
A Douglas Dakota III KG471 of 28 Squadron South African Air Force from Paris, France force-landed near Delabole as a result of fuel exhaustion. It was diverting to RAF St Mawgan because of bad weather.

Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
RAF Davidstow Moor 1942-1945

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