Date: | Tuesday 3 March 1942 |
Time: | 10:30 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3-194B |
Owner/operator: | KNILM-Kon. Nederlandsch-Indische Luchtvaart Maatschappij |
Registration: | PK-AFV |
MSN: | 1965 |
Year of manufacture: | 1937 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 12 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Carnot Bay, WA -
Australia
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Bandung Airport (BDO/WICC) |
Destination airport: | Broome Airport, WA (BME/YBRM) |
Narrative:Three Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero aircraft returning to base after attacking Broome fired at the aircraft which force landed at Carnot Bay, 90 km N of Broome. Three passengers and one crew member (J.F.M. Blaauw, mechanic) died during a following strafing.
Sources:
Coupar, Anne Robertson: The Smirnoff Story, 1960
Wills, Juliet: The diamond Dakota Mystery, 2006
Opsomming van de bekende ongevallen en incidenten in 1940 / H.Dekker Images:
photo (c) Stadsarchief Amsterdam; in flight; 1937; (publicdomain)
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