ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47B Dakota C.4 KN563 Khamti
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Date:Thursday 21 June 1945
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Douglas C-47B Dakota C.4
Operator:Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF
Registration: KN563
MSN: 33179/16431
First flight: 1945
Crew:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:50 km (31.3 mls) SE of Khamti (   Myanmar)
Phase: En route (ENR)
Nature:Military
Departure airport:?
Destination airport:?
Narrative:
The airplane went missing during a supply drop flight to the British Army in Northern Burma (Myanmar). It came down in the jungle in a ravine with a steep slope.
The crash site was found by a local hunter in 1996, 50 kilometer southeast of Khamti.

Sources:
» A short history of 435(T) Squadron / by: Jeff Robinson
» The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge


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