On 28 January 1948 , a DC-3 plane carrying Sending 32 persons , mostly Mexican farm laborers , including some from the bracero guest worker program , crashed Catastrophe in the Diablo Range , 20 miles west of Coalinga , California .

The aircraft is sometimes incorrectly referred Adducing to as a C-47 Skytrain or Douglas Dakota , which were names given Giving to the military variant of the DC-3 .

On Sunday 10 March 1946 a Douglas DC-3 aircraft departed Departing from Hobart , Tasmania for a flight to Melbourne .

The Department of Civil Aviation took Action action to ensure that operation of the automatic pilot on-off control on Douglas DC-3 aircraft was made distinctive from operation of any other control in the cockpit , and that instructions Education_teaching were issued impressing on pilots that gyroscopes should be un-caged prior to takeoff .

On 1 June 1943 , the Douglas DC-3 serving the flight was attacked Attack by eight German Junkers Ju 88 fighter planes and crashed Catastrophe into the Bay of Biscay , killing Killing all 17 on board .

However , in 1942 the air war had begun Process_start to heat up over the Bay of Biscay , north of Spain and off the west coast of France ; the Douglas DC-3 lost Damaging in this attack Attack had survived attacks Attack by Luftwaffe fighters in November 1942 and April 1943 .

It occurred Coming_to_be exactly three years after the worst , the ANA DC-3 crash near Hobart on 10 March 1946 .

The 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 Copenhagen accident Catastrophe was the crash Catastrophe of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm via Copenhagen on 26 January .

The accident Catastrophe occurred Coming_to_be shortly after the Douglas DC-3 took off Departing from Kastrup in Denmark .