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Date: | Sunday 11 June 1950 |
Time: | |
Type: | Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman |
Owner/operator: | Sinclair Petroleum Company |
Registration: | ET-T-30 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Belet Uen, Italian Somaliland -
Somalia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Mogadishu |
Destination airport: | Ogaden |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Forced landing in dense jungle. Six US citizen (a woman and a child) spotted from the air and rescued after five days with help of Italian Army tanks. Aircraft chartered from Ethiopian Airlines.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
http://www.santafe.gov.ar/hemerotecadigital/diario/22533/ El Litoral 15 June 1950, p1
The Indian Express 17 June 1950, p5
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-May-2011 03:25 |
TB |
Added |
17-Jan-2015 19:14 |
TB |
Updated [Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
30-Dec-2018 17:19 |
TB |
Updated [Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |