Narrative:Crashed during Operation Market Garden. All six American crew members and eighteen British paratroopers died. The aircraft was heading towards the drop zones west of Arnhem, the Netherlands when it was hit by German Flak near Ochten.
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Douglas DC-3
- ca 13.000 built
- 1037th loss
- 351st fatal accident
- 10th worst accident (at the time)
- 132nd worst accident (currently)
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Netherlands
- The worst accident (at the time)
- 5th worst accident (currently)
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