ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340454
Date: | Thursday 23 December 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-20-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-23500 |
MSN: | 9362 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Mount Victoria -
Papua New Guinea
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Dobodura No.15-North Borio Airstrip |
Destination airport: | Port Moresby-Wards Airfield |
Narrative:The Douglas C-47A transport plane departed North Borio Airstrip (Dobodura No. 15) at 14:51 hours to return to Port Moresby-Wards Field. The aircraft, with four crew members and two passengers on board failed to arrive.
The initial search for the airplane was terminated on January 12, 1944.
During January 1944, the wreckage believed to be this C-47 was spotted at 8 57' S 147 35' E in on the uppermost slopes of the Owen Stanley Mountains on Mount Victoria. A ground party failed to reach the crash site failed due to the difficult terrain.
Sources:
PacificWrecks.com The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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