| Date: | Thursday 22 July 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Ethiopian Air Lines |
| Registration: | ET-T-5 |
| MSN: | 19416 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Gore Airport (GOR) -
 Ethiopia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Gore Airport (GOR/HAGR) |
The DC-3 overran the wet Gore runway. The pilot intentionally ground looped the airplane. It skidded into rocks, causing the right undercarriage to collapse. The fuselage was turned into the Ethiopian Air Lines site office at Gore.
Sources:
Bringing Africa thogether / Ethiopian Airlines, 1988
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