Date:	Monday 19 March 1945
Time:
Type:	Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	KN343
MSN:	32659/15911
Year of manufacture:	1945
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 28
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	200 km S off Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea -   Pacific Ocean
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Port Moresby-Jackson Field (POM/AYPY)
Destination airport:	Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, QLD (TSV/YBTL)

Narrative:
The aircraft ditched into the Coral Sea following a failure of both engines.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Australia @ War (ozatwar.com)

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