| Date: | Monday 8 January 1968 |
| Time: | 17:00 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-35-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Jugoslovenski Aerotransport - JAT |
| Registration: | YU-ABK |
| MSN: | 33277/16529 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Sankt Florian -
 Austria
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | München-Riem Airport (MUC/EDDM) |
| Zagreb-Pleso Airport (ZAG/LDZA) |
The DC-3 cargo plane departed Munich (MUC), Germany about 16:00 on a cargo flight to Zagreb (ZAG), Yugoslavia. En route near Linz, Austria, one of the airplane's engines began to ran rough. Moments later flames were seen coming from the engine. The airplane lost height and the crew attempted an emergency landing at Linz-Hörsching Airport (LNZ). The airplane did not make it and the pilot made a forced landing in a forest.
Sources:
Arbeiter-Zeitung, 9-1-1968
Location
Images:
photo (c) G. Kronlachner; Linz Hörsching; 1968
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