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| Date: | Wednesday 27 January 1954 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Yakovlev Yak-18 |
| Owner/operator: | Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP) Luft |
| Registration: | 1 |
| MSN: | 6016 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Niesky -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Cottbus-Drewitz (EDCD) |
Hit obstacle on ground during low level flight and crashed; instructor ULtn Iris Wittig (25) and student ULtn Rückert seriously injured; aircraft rebuilt.
Sources:
1. http://home.snafu.de/veith/verluste1.htm
2. http://home.snafu.de/veith/iris.htm#Wittig
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 March 1966 | DM-WBZ | Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik (GST) | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 11-Mar-2011 15:02 | TB | Added |
| 12-Mar-2011 04:11 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 12-Mar-2011 04:21 | TB | Updated [Location, Departure airport, ] |
| 19-Aug-2012 08:46 | TB | Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 19-Aug-2012 09:06 | TB | Updated [Operator, ] |
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