ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340789
| Date: | Tuesday 10 August 1943 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-30-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-23700 |
| MSN: | 9562 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 16 km NE of Terapo -
 Papua New Guinea
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Port Moresby (unknown airport) |
The Douglas C-47A was en route to Port Moresby over the southern coast of Papua New Guinea when it collided with another Douglas C-47 ("#168"). The first aircraft made a successful belly landing into a swamp with kunai grass near Terapo. The other C-47 was crash landed at 7-Mile Drome near Port Moresby.
Sources:
PacificWrecks.com
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