ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) 43-15376 Kranj
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Date:Friday 9 August 1946
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3)
Operator:United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration: 43-15376
MSN: 19842
First flight: 1944
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage: Damaged beyond repair
Location:near Kranj (   Slovenia)
Phase: Unknown (UNK)
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Wien Air Base (VIE/LOWW), Austria
Destination airport:Udine Airfield (UDN/LIPD), Italy
Narrative:
Shot down by two Yugoslav Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter planes and force-landed.
Seven U.S., two Hungarian and one Turkish (injured) citizens were released on 20 August 1946.

Sources:
» Passauer Neue Presse 20 August 1946, p1
» El Litoral 22-8-1946
» Aircraft Downed During the Cold War and Thereafter


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Distance from Wien Air Base to Udine Airfield as the crow flies is 342 km (214 miles).

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.
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