Date:	Sunday 7 February 1960
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-53D-DO (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria
Registration:	209
MSN:	11643
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Straits of Florida -   Atlantic Ocean
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV/MUHA)
Destination airport:	Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA)

Narrative:
A Cuban DC-3, named "Sierra Maestra", disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico during a ferry flight from Havana to Miami. The airplane, reportedly used for flights by Fidel Castro, the Prime Minister of Cuba, was being flown to Miami for propeller adjustment works.
A distress message was received at 14:10 but the plane was not located after a search. A jacket of the co-pilot spotted south of Miami 11 February 1960.

El Siglo de Torreon 9 February 1960, p3
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Feb 8, 1960
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Diario de la Marina - February 10, 1960
Diario de la Marina - February 12, 1960

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