On December 19, 1945, a RAAF C-47 with 25 people on board crashed on or near an island in the Timor area of the Banda Sea during a storm.

It left Ambon at 10.40AM and, about an hour into the flight, indicated that it wished to place a message.

[2] Darwin Aeradio asked the plane to "go ahead" but no response was received.

A second, garbled message, which included the Dakota's call sign CIZ, was also intercepted.

Two days after that, a civilian engineer reported picking up a final message stating “Darwin from Timor... waiting to be picked up.” Unfortunately search efforts at the time proved fruitless and no trace of the plane or those it carried has been found.