 The tail of VT-CLA, after the crash | |
| Incident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 29 July 1947 |
| Summary | Shot down by fighter aircraft |
| Site | Ngoto, Bantul, Indonesia |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas C-47B Skytrain |
| Registration | VT-CLA |
| Flight origin | Singapore |
| Destination | Yogyakarta, Indonesia |
| Passengers | 6 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Fatalities | 8 |
| Survivors | 1 |
The 1947 Yogyakarta Dakota incident occurred when a Douglas C-47 Skytrain was carrying medical supplies to the de facto republican government of Indonesia at Yogyakarta which crashed on 29 July 1947.
During the Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949), several Indonesian nationalists, including Commodores Agustinus Adisucipto and Abdul Rahman Saleh, were tasked to deliver medical supplies from Malaya. Near the completion of the mission, as their aircraft – chartered from an Indian businessman and flown by an Australian pilot – approached the airfield at Maguwo, Yogyakarta, two Dutch Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks flew in and shot the aircraft down over Ngoto, Bantul. Only one person survived the crash.
Although the Dutch initially denied complicity, investigation showed that the Kittyhawks had caused the crash; the Dutch later made restitution to India. On 1 March 1948 a monument to remember the event was built in Ngoto. Since 1979, the Indonesian Air Force has celebrated a Service Day (Hari Bakti) in commemoration of the crash and in remembrance of the deaths.
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