ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339552
| Date: | Thursday 7 September 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-20-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | ML-KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force) |
| Registration: | DT-941 |
| MSN: | 12880 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 12,3 km NW of Mossman, QLD -
 Australia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Merauke-Mopah Airport (MKQ/WAKK) |
| Cairns Airport, QLD (CNS/YBCS) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The plane went missing while en route from Merauke to Cairns. The last radio contact was 15 minutes before ETA. A scientific expedition found the wreckage in January 1989, 73 km northwest of Cairns Airport at a height of 1,300 meters.
Sources:
7 September 1944 - Crash of a C-47 Dakota near Mossman / Peter Dunn
Gedenkrol van de Koninklijke Marine 1939-1962 / H. Floor
Dr Geoff Monteith (E-mail 17-4-2013)
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