ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339369
Date: | Sunday 24 September 1944 |
Time: | 13:00 |
Type: | Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | KG653 |
MSN: | 13470 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 23 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Neuleiningen -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Pershore RAF Station |
Destination airport: | Cagliari-Elmas Airport (CAG/LIEE) |
Narrative:Dakota KG653 took off from RAF Pershore with 14 other aircraft on a troop transport flight to Karachi. The first stop was planned at Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia. Due to bad weather, KG653 strayed off course and flew into Germany.
A Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14 opened fire on the right-hand engine. The aircraft rolled inverted and one of the wings separated. The Dakota burst into flames and crashed.
Sources:
RAAF Personnel serving on attachment in Royal Air Force Squadrons and Support Units in World War 2 and Missing with No Known Grave Location
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