ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335624
| Date: | Friday 4 April 1952 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas VC-47D (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 45-926 |
| MSN: | 34187/16929 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 9 km N of Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Montgomery-Maxwell AFB, AL (MXF/KMXF) |
| Mobile-Brookley AFB, AL (BFM/KBFM) |
Mid-air collision at night between Douglas VC-47D 45-926 and Douglas C-124A-DL Globemaster II 50-1260. Both aircraft spun down, crashing on top of parked railroad box cars and bursting into flames.
The VC-47 operated on a flight from Maxwell AFB to Brookley AFB while the Globemaster operated on a local flight out of Brookley AFB.
Sources:
Toledo Blade - Apr 5, 1952
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