ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337703
| Date: | Tuesday 11 September 1945 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-30-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Australian Air Force - RAAF |
| Registration: | A65-56 |
| MSN: | 25365/13920 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Milne Bay -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Alotau-Gurney Airport (GUR/AYGN) |
| Dobodura Airfield |
Minutes after taking off from Gurney, the plane was engulfed by a tropical downpour. At 10:21, the pilot radioed to the tower he was returning and asked to be "homed". That was the last anyone ever heard of the aircraft. Weather closed in around strip and aircraft apparently crashed into sea.
Aerial and ground searches found nothing. But the next day a village constable in a canoe found life jackets, cushions and oil floating on the surface of the water at Milne Bay.
Sources:
Pacific Wrecks - C-47A-30-DK Serial Number A65-56 Tail Number VH-CIJ
Australian Military Aircraft Serials and Aircraft History web site
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