Accident Douglas C-47B-15-DK (DC-3) 43-49534,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336653
 

Date:Sunday 25 July 1948
Time:01:00
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Douglas C-47B-15-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:United States Air Force - USAF
Registration: 43-49534
MSN: 26795/15350
Year of manufacture:1944
Engine model:Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed, written off
Category:Accident
Location:4 km W of Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF) -   Germany
Phase: Approach
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) Air Base (WIE/ETOU)
Destination airport:Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB)
Narrative:
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.

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