Date:	Sunday 23 December 1945
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47B Dakota IV (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF
Registration:	986
MSN:	32681/15933
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Goose Bay Airport, NL (YYR) -   Canada
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK/EGPK)
Destination airport:	Goose Bay Airport, NL (YYR/CYYR)

Narrative:
The Dakota IV struck a snow drift on landing, swung to port and struck a snow bank. There was serious damage to the nose, both engines, engine nacelles, propellers, starboard wing, fuselage, tail wheel and oleo.
The aircraft operated on a flight to RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario.

John Bradley
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers

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