Date: | Saturday 28 June 1969 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-54A-15-DC (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | Affretair |
Registration: | TR-LNV |
MSN: | 10397 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Uli Airstrip -
Nigeria
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | Uli Airstrip |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft crashed when the crew attempted to take off the wrong direction.
The aircraft was part of the Biafran Airlift, which was an international humanitarian relief effort that transported food and medicine to Biafra during the 1967-70 secession war from Nigeria.
Sources:
Shadows: Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria 1967-1970 / Michael I. Draper (p.270)
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