Date:	Wednesday 1 December 1943
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-30-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-23659
MSN:	9521
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Port Moresby -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, QLD (TSV/YBTL)
Destination airport:	Port Moresby (unknown airport)

Narrative:
Both engines of the C-47A transport plane failed at 4,000 feet and the aircraft force landed in a swamp near Galley Reach and the Vanapa River.

PacificWrecks
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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