Date: | Tuesday 9 January 1945 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-65-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-100479 |
MSN: | 18942 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Biak -
Indonesia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Biak-Boroekoe Royal Dutch Navy Air Station |
Destination airport: | Peleliu Airfield |
Narrative:The C-47A transport plane took off from Boroekoe Airfield on Biak on a flight bound for Peleliu Airfield.
Weather was a heavy overcast with a ceiling at 1,000'. Elsewhere, the sky was clear. After take off, the airplane made a turn to the right instead of the left with the rest of the formation.
The wreckage was located on March 11, 1945 in a swamp on the north side of Biak.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
pacificwrecks.com MACR
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