Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 25 FEB 1954 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-90-DL |
| Operator: | Indian Airlines |
| Registration: | VT-ATU |
| C/n / msn: | 20358 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 16 km (10 mls) from Delhi (India) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
Crashed during a test flight to attempt to determine the cause of an earlier DC-3 accident at Nagpur on December 12, 1953
Sources:
» Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 58)
» ICAO Circular 39-AN/34 (172)
Photos
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
