sentences:  PK-AFV, also known as the PH-ALP Pelikaan (one of the KLM airliners that diverted during the German invasion of the Netherlands), was a Douglas DC-3 airliner operated by KNILM from 1940.On 3 March 1942, while on a flight from Bandung, Netherlands East Indies, to Broome, Australia, with the well-known KLM captain Ivan Smirnov, the plane was attacked by three Japanese Mitsubishi A6M fighter planes; PK-AFV successfully landed on the beach with damage and an engine fire but was then strafed and the flight-engineer and three passengers (including a baby) were killed.Smirnov had a consignment of diamonds, worth at the time an estimated £150,000–300,000 (in 2019 an approximate £– million), in his possession.