Last updated: 4 December 2021
| Status: | |
| Date: | Monday 31 May 1954 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-30-DK (DC-3) |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 43-48097 |
| MSN: | 25358/13913 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | Duluth-Williamson-Johnson Municipal Airport, MN (DLH) ( United States of America)
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| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Indianapolis Airport, IN, United States of America |
| Duluth International Airport, MN (DLH/KDLH), United States of America |
Crashed in a gravel pit in heavy fog.
Sources:
» Diário de Lisboa 1 June 1954, p6» Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1954, p.1
» Accident-Report.com
» The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
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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.
