Date:	Sunday 13 May 1945
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-35-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-23952
MSN:	9814
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 24
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Hidden Valley, Papua -   Indonesia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Jayapura-Sentani Airport (DJJ/WAJJ)
Destination airport:	Jayapura-Sentani Airport (DJJ/WAJJ)

Narrative:
The aircraft operated on a sight seeing flight out of Sentani Airport. It was caught in a downdraft and crashed in a mountainous area.

The Wilmington Morning Star-News 10 June 1945
pacificwrecks.com
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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