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| Date: | Wednesday 21 November 1973 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Type: |  Douglas R4D-8 (Super DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 17171 |
| MSN: | 43309 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-80 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Sólheimasandur -
 Iceland
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Hofn Hornafjördur Airport (HFN/BIHN) |
The Douglas R4D-8 US Navy transport plane had delivered supplies at Hofn Hornafjördur Airport for the radar-station in Stokksnes, Iceland. En route the airplane encountered severe icing. The crew were not able to maintain altitude. A forced landing was carried out on an ice covered river on near coast of Iceland. The ice broke but the airplane did not sink.
The remains of the plane were abandoned and the main fuselage is still there.
Sources:
Morgunblaðið, 22-11-1973
Location
Images:
photo (c) Marc De Tollenaere; Sólheimasandur; 11 August 2013
photo (c) Marc De Tollenaere; Sólheimasandur; 11 August 2013
photo (c) Tool Inka; Sólheimasandur; 01 April 2014
photo (c) Ruud van der Lubben; Sólheimasandur; 05 May 2014
photo (c) Antoine; Sólheimasandur; 03 March 2015
photo (c) Chris Ogden; Sólheimasandur; 02 March 2015
photo (c) Chris Ogden; Sólheimasandur; 02 March 2015
photo (c) Thorir Kjartansson; Sólheimasandur
photo (c) Nik Bennett; Sólheimasandur; 31 January 2015
photo (c) Peter Donaldson; Mildenhall RAF Station (MHZ/EGUN); 06 September 1972
photo (c) Gordon Riley; Mildenhall RAF Station (MHZ/EGUN); 14 October 1972
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