Date: | Thursday 21 December 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | South African Air Force - SAAF |
Registration: | KG498 |
MSN: | 12820 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 23 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 16 km SSW of Torrettoria -
Italy
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was evacuating wounded personnel from Athens to Italy and there were seven RAF/SAAF men and sixteen others on board. The pilot descended in cloud when uncertain of the aircraft's position and the aircraft struck a hill at a height of 1200 feet about 25 miles from its destination. There was a single survivor.
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