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| Date: | Monday 5 July 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-15096 |
| MSN: | 19562 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,6 km E of Wiesbaden Air Base -
 Germany
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB) |
| Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) Air Base (WIE/ETOU) |
Crashed in poor weather conditions. The plane struck a clump of trees about three-fourths of a mile from Wiesbaden Air Base as it came in for a landing about midnight. The pilot (Lt. Frederick P. Davison) and the co-pilot (Lt. Harry N. Samms) suffered minor injuries.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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