Estado: | |
Fecha: | martes 27 marzo 1945 |
Tipo: |  Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
Operador: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registración: | 43-16011 |
Numéro de série: | 20477 |
Año de Construcción: | 1944 |
Motores: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 4 / Ocupantes: 4 |
Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 20 / Ocupantes: 20 |
Total: | Fatalidades: 24 / Ocupantes: 24 |
Daños en la Aeronave: | Desaparecido |
Ubicación: | at an unknown location ( Papúa Nueva Guinea)
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Fase: | En ruta (ENR) |
Naturaleza: | Militar |
Aeropuerto de Salida: | Cooktown Airport, QLD (CTN/YCKN), Australia |
Aeropuerto de Llegada: | Finschhafen Airport (FIN), Papúa Nueva Guinea |
Descripción:Missing en route.
The wreckage of this aircraft has never been located. It is believed to be somewhere in the mountains of the Saruwaged Range, Papua New Guinea.
Fuentes:
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Peter Dunn's Australia @ war»
PacificWrecks.com
Fotos
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does
not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Cooktown Airport, QLD to Finschhafen Airport as the crow flies is 1020 km (637 miles).
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.