PK AFV: Douglas Aircraft Company, DC 3, Propeller, KLM, KNILM, Bandung, Dutch East Indies, Broome, Western Australia

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. PK-AFV, also known as Pelikaan and previously registered as PH-ALP, was a Douglas, and DC-3 twin-propeller-engined airliner, operated by KLM and its Asian subsidiary, KNILM from 1937 to 1942. The aircraft is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a Dakota or C-47, which were names given to military variants of the DC-3.On March 3, 1942, while on a flight from Bandung, in the Dutch East Indies (later Indonesia), to Broome, Australia, PK-AFV was attacked by Japanese fighter planes; it was crash-landed on a beach near Broome. Four passengers died of bullet wounds or as a result of the crash. The cargo included diamonds worth an estimated A£150,000-300,000 (now an approximate A$20-40 million). The majority of these diamonds were lost or stolen following the crash. Their fate remains an officially unsolved mystery.