ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340310
Date: | Thursday 10 February 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-DK (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
Registration: | 42-92051 |
MSN: | 11809 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Mambare Bay -
Papua New Guinea
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Lae-Nadzab Airport (LAE/AYNZ) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Two Douglas C-47A transport planes operated by the USAAF collided in mid air. One of the aircraft, 42-92051 (c/n 11809) sustained severe damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder and elevator. This aircraft was ditched 160 km SE off Lae, Papua New Guinea, killing one of the occupants. The other aircraft, 42-92038 (c/n 11794), landed safely.
Sources:
PacificWrecks.com The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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