- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: December 24, 1959
Time: 0500
Location: Palembang, Indonesia
Operator: Garuda Indonesia Airlines
Flight #: 330
Route: Palembang - Jakarta
AC Type: Douglas C-47A
Registration: PK-GDV
cn / ln: 13535
Aboard: 2   (passengers:0  crew:2)
Fatalities: 1   (passengers:0  crew: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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