Date:	Wednesday 12 January 1949
Time:	00:05
Type:	Douglas C-54D-5-DC (DC-4)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	42-72629
MSN:	10734
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	4 km E of Frankfurt Rhein-Main Air Force Base (FRF) -   Germany
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Berlin (unknown airport)
Destination airport:	Frankfurt-Rhein-Main AFB (FRF/EDAF)

Narrative:
Crashed on approach in a snowstorm. The C-54 was part of the Berlin Airlift.

USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
Die Rosinenbomber, Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49 / Huschke, Wolfgang J.

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