ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329702
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Date: | Sunday 9 February 1975 |
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Type: | Transall C-160D |
Owner/operator: | Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 50+63 |
MSN: | D-85 |
Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 42 / Occupants: 42 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 24 km from Chania-Soúda Airport (CHQ), Crete -
Greece
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Hohn Air Base (ETNH) |
Destination airport: | Chania-Soúda Airport (CHQ/LGSA) |
Narrative:The Transall carried 37 West German soldiers to the NATO's missile base on Crete. It crashed in in stormy weather in snow-covered mountains at an altitude of about 5000 feet.
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