Airplane Crash - Palembang, Indonesia 12/24/1959
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Palembang, Indonesia
| Date | 12/24/1959 |
| Time | 05:00 |
| Location | Palembang, Indonesia |
| Operator | Garuda Indonesia Airlines |
| Flight # | 330 |
| Type | Douglas C-47A |
| Registration | PK-GDV |
| Cn/In | 13535 |
| Aboard | 2 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | Shortly after takeoff the cargo plane lost the No. 2 engine, tried to return to the airport but crashed. Failure of the right engine, a lack of precaution on the part of the captain and marginal weather. A contributing factor may have been the overloaded condition of the aircraft, however, not to such an extent that it forced the aircraft to descend to a dangerously low altitude. |
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