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
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,6 km E of Wiesbaden Air Base -   Germany
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB)
Destination airport:	Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) Air Base (WIE/ETOU)

Narrative:
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.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Stars and Stripes

Date/time	Contributor	Updates