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Monument to the crash. On 24 January 1974, a Togo Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain carrying several notable political figures crashed at an isolated location near the village of Sarakawa in northern Togo. Gnassingbé Eyadéma, the President of Togo, was on board the aircraft, which was flying from Lomé to his native village, Pya.
2100925, the Philippine Air Force Douglas C-47 involved in the accident. The aircraft involved in the crash was a newly reconditioned twin engine C-47A-75-DL Skytrain, [4] which was operated by the Philippine Air Force and served as the official presidential plane of Magsaysay. [5]
The Canal Creek air crash occurred on 19 December 1943, when a C-47 aircraft of the 22d Troop Carrier Squadron 374th Troop Carrier Group crashed at Canal Creek, Queensland, 50 km (31 mi) north of Rockhampton, killing all 31 people on board.
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner. It was used extensively by the Allies during World War II. During the war the C-47 was used for troop transport, cargo, paratrooper, for towing gliders and military cargo parachute drops
1946 Railway Air Services Dakota crash; 1946 United States Air Force C-47 Crash at Yan'an; 1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash; 1951 Rio do Sal Linhas Aéreas Paulistas C-47 crash; 1961 Malév Hungarian Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain crash; 1973 Sólheimasandur Douglas DC-3 crash; 1978 Finnish Air Force DC-3 crash
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The 1951 Rio do Sal Linhas Aéreas Paulistas C-47D crash was an aviation accident that occurred on 12 July 1951. During the execution of instrument landing procedures, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain of the company Linhas Aéreas Paulistas collided with a tree located 3 km from the runway of the Aracaju airport. All 33 occupants of the aircraft died in ...
Minutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. It was just after 2: ...