ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333521
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| Date: | Sunday 6 August 1961 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Malev Hungarian Airlines |
| Registration: | HA-TSA |
| MSN: | 20492 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 27 |
| Other fatalities: | 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Budapest -
 Hungary
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Budapest-Ferihegy Airport (BUD/LHBP) |
| Budapest-Ferihegy Airport (BUD/LHBP) |
The DC-3 was on a summer sightseeing flight when it crashed between two blocks of houses in a residential area.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "An official Hungarian commission said that the accident was caused by carelessness on the part of the crew. The commission said the pilots had two friends in the cabin during the whole flight and the pilots had performed various forbidden manoeuvres and in one sharp turn, lost control of the aircraft."
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| 19 November 1951 | 43-16026 | United States Air Force - USAF | 0 | near Papa | |
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