ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337768
Date: | Friday 17 August 1945 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | FL603 |
MSN: | 12013 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Dahanu -
India
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Bombay-Santacruz Airport (BOM/VABB) |
Destination airport: | Karachi-Mauripur RAF Station (OPMR) |
Narrative:The Dakota III transport plane operated on a routine transport flight from Bombay at 07:25 hours en route for Karachi, when it appears that after being airborne for half an hour the port wing became detached in flight followed by the loss of the port engine and nacelle. The aircraft crashed near the village of Dahanu.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Warbirds of India (warbirds.in) RAAF fatalities in Second World War among RAAF personnel serving on attachment in Royal Air Force Squadrons and Support Units / by Alan Storr, 2006 Location
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