Date:	Monday 18 October 1948
Time:	05:39
Type:	Douglas C-54D-10-DC (DC-4)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	42-72688
MSN:	10793
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	ca 20 km N of Frankfurt -   Germany
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB)
Destination airport:	Frankfurt-Rhein-Main AFB (FRF/EDAF)

Narrative:
Ripped through tree tops in the Taunus mountains three minutes from this destination and crashed. The Skymaster was part of Berlin Airlift and was returning empty from Berlin.

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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