Date: | Thursday 3 September 1970 |
Time: | 10:12 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-10-DK Dakota 3 (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Hunting Surveys |
Registration: | G-AVPW |
MSN: | 12476 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | UI |
Location: | near Huambo -
Angola
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Survey |
Departure airport: | Nova Lisboa Airport (NOV/FNHU) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:During a lo altitude (about 150 m) survey flight out of Nova Lisboa (now Huambo) the DC-3 was being fired at. Hydraulic lines were damaged and fuel leaking rapidly from the starboard fuel tanks. A safe emergency landing was carried out at Nova Lisboa Airport's runway 11.
One of the pilots was injured in the occurrence.
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photo (c) J.J. Barret; Huambo; 03 September 1970
photo (c) J.J. Barret; Huambo; 03 September 1970
photo (c) J.J. Barret; Huambo; 03 September 1970
photo (c) J.J. Barret; Huambo; 03 September 1970
photo (c) J.J. Barret; Huambo; June 1970
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