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| Date: | Wednesday 12 January 1949 |
| Time: | 00:05 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54D-5-DC (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 42-72629 |
| MSN: | 10734 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 4 km E of Frankfurt Rhein-Main Air Force Base (FRF) -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Berlin (unknown airport) |
| Frankfurt-Rhein-Main AFB (FRF/EDAF) |
Crashed on approach in a snowstorm. The C-54 was part of the Berlin Airlift.
Sources:
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
Die Rosinenbomber, Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49 / Huschke, Wolfgang J.
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