Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 JAN 1952 |
| Type: | Fairchild C-82A Packet |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 45-57791 |
| C/n / msn: | 10161 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Raunheim (Germany) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Frankfurt-Rhein-Main AFB (FRF/EDAF), Germany |
The plane was reported flying in a formation of twelve C-82s when it caught fire five miles west of its base. All five crew members bailed out and the airplane crashed in a village.
Sources:
» newspaper clippings
» c82packet.com
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
