Date:	Wednesday 2 February 1944
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47A-20-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	42-23487
MSN:	9349
Year of manufacture:	1943
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 22
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	off Papua New Guinea -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, QLD (TSV/YBTL)
Destination airport:	Gurney Airfield (No. 1 Strip, Fall River) (GUR/AYGN)

Narrative:
A Douglas C-47A went missing on a flight from Townsville-Garbutt Airfield, Australia to Gurney Airfield (No. 1 Strip, Fall River). Papua New Guinea. En route weather included periods of rainfall and an area with cumulonimbus peaks to 18-20,000 feet.
The aircraft was last heard from by Horn Island Radio when the crew attempted to contact Milne Bay by radio. There was no reply from Milne Bay.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
MACR

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