1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown
Short Empire S.23 · Shootdown
From El Tari Airport (KOE) to Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin (DRW)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 18
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Short Empire S.23
- Aircraft type
- Short Empire S-23
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- G-AEUH
- Operator
- Qantas
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From El Tari Airport (KOE)To Darwin International Airport / RAAF Darwin (DRW)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article, given only to the whole degree (up to about 70 km off); not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1942 Qantas Short Empire shoot-down occurred in the early days of the Pacific War during World War II. Corio, a Short Empire flying boat airliner operated by Qantas, was shot down by Japanese aircraft off the coast of West Timor, Dutch East Indies, on 30 January 1942, killing 13 of the occupants.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown
- Revision
- 1368949591 · 2026-08-12 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4565106
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1942 Qantas Short Empire shootdown" (page 28000855, revision 1368949591)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates (whole degrees)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.