Accident Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) 43-16036,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336630
 

Date:Tuesday 24 August 1948
Time:07:31
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:United States Air Force - USAF
Registration: 43-16036
MSN: 20502
Year of manufacture:1944
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed, written off
Category:Accident
Location:near Ravolzhausen -   Germany
Phase: En route
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB)
Destination airport:Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) Air Base (WIE/ETOU)
Narrative:
Two USAF Douglas C-47 transport aircraft (43-16036 and 43-15116), participating in the Berlin Airlift, crashed following a mid-air collision.
One aircraft crashed about 100 yards south of Ravolzhausen, the other about 1 km north-west of Ravolzhausen.

Sources:

The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift/Edwin Gere
The Free Lance-Star - Aug 24, 1948
Die Rosinenbomber: Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49, Huschke, Wolfgang J.

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