Date:	Tuesday 12 July 1949
Time:	01:17
Type:	Douglas C-54D-1-DC (DC-4)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	42-72476
MSN:	10581
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	19 km W of Rathenow -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Celle RAF Station (ZCN/ETHC)
Destination airport:	Berlin-R.A.F. Gatow Airport (GWW/EDBG)

Narrative:
Crashed after engine number three and four malfunction. Ten tons of coal on board. The airplane from 317th TCW/40th TCS was part of the Berlin Airlift.

There is some uncertainty regarding the identity of this plane; according to the Turbo Prop Airliner Production List, s/n 10581 was sold by USAF to the Turkish Air Force in 1966 (as ETI-581).

The 317th Veterans Group Web site (usaf317thvet.org)
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift/Edwin Gere
Die Rosinenbomber, Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948/49/Huschke, Wolfgang
The 317th Veterans Group Web site (usaf317thvet.org)

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