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| Date: | Tuesday 12 July 1949 |
| Time: | 01:17 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54D-1-DC (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 42-72476 |
| MSN: | 10581 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 19 km W of Rathenow -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Celle RAF Station (ZCN/ETHC) |
| Berlin-R.A.F. Gatow Airport (GWW/EDBG) |
Crashed after engine number three and four malfunction. Ten tons of coal on board. The airplane from 317th TCW/40th TCS was part of the Berlin Airlift.
There is some uncertainty regarding the identity of this plane; according to the Turbo Prop Airliner Production List, s/n 10581 was sold by USAF to the Turkish Air Force in 1966 (as ETI-581).
Sources:
The 317th Veterans Group Web site (usaf317thvet.org)
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
The 317th Veterans Group Web site (usaf317thvet.org)
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