| Date: | Sunday 27 July 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-10-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Tropic Airways |
| Registration: | ZS-DFB |
| MSN: | 12414 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 32 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 160 km off Benghazi -
 Mediterranean Sea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Malta-Luqa Airport (MLA/LMML) |
| Benghazi-Benina International Airport (BEN/HLLB) |
Ditched during a cross-Mediterranean flight from Malta to Benina. This was a leg on the Amsterdam-Johannesburg flight. All occupants were rescued by a US Navy SA-16 Albatross and transferred to Royal Navy ships.
Sources:
The Windsor Daily Star - Jul 28, 1952
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 54)
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