Date:	Friday 16 October 1942
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	41-18585
MSN:	4710
Year of manufacture:	1942
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Bodinumu -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Port Moresby-Wards Airfield
Destination airport:	Port Moresby-Wards Airfield

Narrative:
The C-47 transport plane operated on a supply drop mission for Australian Army troops in the area near Efogi, Papua New Guinea. The aircraft failed to return and was later found to have crashed into a stream bed near Bodinumu village.

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