ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336659
| Date: | Tuesday 20 July 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-30-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | L'Armée de L'Air |
| Registration: | 476561/FRAMC |
| MSN: | 32893/16145 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 20 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 130 km S off Marseille, France -
 Mediterranean Sea
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Algiers-Maison Blanche Airport (ALG/DAAG) |
| Istres-Le Tubé Air Base (LFMI) |
A Douglas C-47B transport plane ditched in the Mediterranean Sea during a flight from Algiers, Algeria to Istres Air Base in France.
All twenty occupants were rescued.
Sources:
El Litoral, 21-7-1948
Leeuwarder courant, 21-7-1948
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