ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 338749
Date: | Thursday 1 February 1945 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Royal Air Force - RAF |
Registration: | KK194 |
MSN: | 26970/15525 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Ben Talaidh, Mull -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Keflavík-Meeks Field (KEF/BIKF) |
Destination airport: | Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK/EGPK) |
Narrative:The Dakota IV crashed into the side of Ben Talaidh, at 2,300ft some 200ft below the summit, the pilot having become disorientated by low cloud and heavy snow. KK194 was on a delivery flight from Montreal, refuelling at Reykjavik, bound for Prestwick.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Air Crash Sites-Scotland Peak District Air Accident Research (peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk) Revision history:
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