26
Mar
Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) – 43-15116
Two USAF Douglas C-47 transport aircraft (43-16036 and 43-15116), participating in the Berlin Airlift, crashed following a mid-air coll...
26
Mar
Douglas C-54G-1-DO (DC-4) – 45-514
Overran runway on landing runway 27R; crashed into a dam (Tempelhofer Damm) and caught fire.
26
Mar
Douglas C-47B-15-DK (DC-3) – 43-49534
Hit the roof and fell into the street in front of an apartment building Handjery-Strasse 2, Berlin-Friedenau on final approach to Tempe...
26
Mar
Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) – KN238
The Dakota C.4 swung on landing. The aircraft ground-looped and the undercarriage collapsed.
26
Mar
Douglas Dakota IV (DC-3) – KN252
The undercarriage collapsed when the aircraft landed following an engine fire.
26
Mar
Douglas C-47A-30-DK (DC-3) – 43-48256
Crashed into Mount Steinkopf, near Knigstein, Taunus. The C-47 was part of the Berlin Airlift.
26
Mar
Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) – 43-15096
Crashed in poor weather conditions. The plane struck a clump of trees about three-fourths of a mile from Wiesbaden Air Base as it came ...
26
Mar
Siebel Si 204 –
Five passengers hijacked a domestic flight in Czechoslovakia and demanded the pilot at gunpoint to fly to Germany. They were fleeing th...
26
Mar
Douglas DC-3 –
Seventeen passengers and three crewmen hijacked a domestic flight in Czechoslovakia. The aircaft was flown to Neubiberg Air Base in Ger...
26
Mar
Vickers 610 Viking 1B – G-AIVP
The Viking collided head-on with a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev 3 fighter, which was performing aerobatics. The Viking spiralled slowly wi...