Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 AUG 1948 |
| Time: | ca 07:31 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-15116 |
| C/n / msn: | 19582 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Collision casualties: | Fatalities: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Ravolzhausen (Germany)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDDI), Germany |
| Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) AB (WIE/ETOU), Germany |
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.
Events:
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.
Photos
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Berlin-Tempelhof Airport to Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) AB as the crow flies is 441 km (276 miles).
Distance from Berlin-Tempelhof Airport to Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) AB as the crow flies is 441 km (276 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Networks opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
