Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 25 JUL 1948 |
| Time: | ca 01:00 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47B-15-DK |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-49534 |
| C/n / msn: | 15350/26795 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 4 km (2.5 mls) W of Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF) (Germany)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) AB (WIE/ETOU), Germany |
| Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDDI), Germany |
Hit the roof and fell into the street in front of an apartment building Handjery-Strasse 2, Berlin-Friedenau on final approach to Tempelhof. Three persons on the ground were injured. The Skytrain was part of the Berlin Airlift.
Sources:
» USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
» The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift/Edwin Gere
» Die Rosinenbomber: Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49, Huschke, Wolfgang J.
Photos
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) AB to Berlin-Tempelhof Airport as the crow flies is 441 km (276 miles).
Distance from Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) AB to Berlin-Tempelhof Airport as the crow flies is 441 km (276 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Networks opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
