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| Date: | Friday 13 August 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54G-1-DO (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 45-514 |
| MSN: | 35967 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF) -
 Germany
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB) |
Overran runway on landing runway 27R; crashed into a dam (Tempelhofer Damm) and caught fire.
Sources:
Die Rosinenbomber, Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49 / Huschke, Wolfgang J.
Landesbildstelle Berlin/picture
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/BAPIC_18.HTM
L'Unità 21-08-1948
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