Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 13 AUG 1948 |
| Type: | Douglas C-54G-1-DO |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 45-0514 |
| C/n / msn: | 35967 |
| First flight: | 1945 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF) (Germany) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDDI), Germany |
Overran runway on landing runway 27R; crashed into a dam (Tempelhofer Damm) and caught fire.
Events:
Sources:
» Die Rosinenbomber, Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49 / Huschke, Wolfgang J.
» Landesbildstelle Berlin/picture
» http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/BAPIC_18.HTM
Photos
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.
