Jakarta – Port-Louis – Cairo – Amsterdam

On June 23, 1949 at 10:55 AM, Jakarta – Port-Louis – Cairo – Amsterdam experienced a crash involving Lockheed L-749 Constellation, operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, with the event recorded near Bari Apulia.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

33 people were known to be on board, 33 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 11, crew fatalities: 11, passengers on board: 22, passenger fatalities: 22, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The four engine aircraft christened 'Roermond' left Cairo Airport at 0508LT bound for Amsterdam with an ETA at 1445LT. While cruising along the east Italian coast at an altitude of 5,000 meters, the airplane went out of control and entered into a dive. During the near vertical descent, the tail broke off, the aircraft came upside down and eventually crashed into the Adriatic Sea, some 1,5 to 2 km off shore, near Bari. The wreckage sank by 35 meters deep and only few debris were found. All 33 occupants were killed. Crew: Johan Cornelis (Hans) Plesman, pilot (son of Albert Plesman, Director of KLM), Jacobus Tuyt, pilot, Jan van Kuyk, pilot, Albert George Modard, pilot, Leendert Post, radio operator, Jacques Marinus Willem Hout, radio operator, Dirk Martinus Grandia, flight engineer, Johan Albert van der Meer, flight engineer, Pieter Jelles Overbeek, steward, Cornelia Antoinette Timmermans, stewardess, Jan Hendrik Ross, cooker.

Aircraft reference details include registration PH-TER, MSN 2541, year of manufacture 1947.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 41.1570°, 16.7659°.