Date:	Wednesday 25 November 1953
Time:
Type:	Douglas VC-47D (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	43-49093
MSN:	26354/14909
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Camp A.P. Hill, VA -   United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Washington-Bolling AFB, DC (BOF/KBOF)
Destination airport:	Montgomery (unknown airport), AL

Narrative:
The flight crew attempted an emergency landing on an unpaved runway at Camp A.P. Hill in Caroline County, Virginia, USA after engine trouble. The aircraft ran into a clump of trees at the end of the too short runway. Both wings were sheared off and the nose was crushed. The three crew were injured.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Accident-Report.com
The Free Lance-Star 25 November 1953, p1

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