Talk:1942 KNILM Douglas DC-3 shootdown

Move to 1942 KNILM Douglas DC-3 shootdown

At the suggestion of aviation project members, I have moved PK-AFV to the new titole.

I also considered moving it to a title like 1942 Australia diamonds robbery, as the loss of the cargo is what gets the most attention about this incident.

However, I believe that the death of civilian passengers when was PK-AFV Pelikaan was deliberately shot down would, from an objective point of view, generally be regarded as more historically significant.

Grant | Talk 03:27, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Lack of context

I think this article would benefit from some more context. The shootdown happened at the end of resistance of the Dutch East Indies to the Japanese and it seems more a fleeing flight than a regular airliner.--Pere prlpz (talk) 13:01, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Radio operator

After reading this article, I believe that an error was made. According to documents I received from KLM -(Peter Offerman, External Communications, 1992), the radio operator on this aircraft was not Jo Muller but my father, Arthur Edward Misdale. The letter stated (partly): "the flight took place on March 4, 1942 and was operated by the Douglas DC-3 with the registration PK-AFV. The captain was Ivan Smirnoff. The radio operator (your husband) managed to repair the radio but his first signal was intercepted by the Japanese who attacked the survivors again." 110.150.50.254 (talk) 01:09, 17 January 2022 (UTC)