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| Date: | Tuesday 24 August 1948 |
| Time: | 07:31 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-15116 |
| MSN: | 19582 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Ravolzhausen -
 Germany
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB) |
| Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) Air Base (WIE/ETOU) |
Two USAF Douglas C-47 transport aircraft (43-16036 and 43-15116), participating in the Berlin Airlift, crashed following a mid-air collision.
One aircraft crashed about 100 yards south of Ravolzhausen, the other about 1 km north-west of Ravolzhausen.
Sources:
The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift/Edwin Gere
The Free Lance-Star - Aug 24, 1948
Die Rosinenbomber: Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49, Huschke, Wolfgang J.
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