List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1953

Last updated

This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3 A that occurred in 1953, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2. Military accidents are included; and hijackings and incidents of terrorism are covered, although acts of war involving military aircraft are outside the scope of this list.

Contents

January 1
An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3C (registration EI-ACF, named St. Kieran) force-landed at Spernall, United Kingdom due to engine failure and fuel starvation while on a Dublin-Birmingham service; all 25 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off. [1]
January 23
A Dalstroi Aviation Li-2 (registration CCCP-Zh125) crashed on takeoff from Batagay Airport; all five crew on board survived, but the aircraft was written off. [2]
January 26
A Linee Aeree Italiane Douglas C-47-DL (registration I-LAIL) crashed at Mount Sinnai after the left wing separated in flight, killing all 19 on board. [3]
March 17
An Aigle Azur C-47A (registration F-BEFG) crashed while on approach to Da Nang Airport in bad weather, killing all eight on board. [4]
April 14
A Miami Airline DC-3C (registration N65743) crashed near Selleck, Washington due to double engine failure caused by improper maintenance, killing seven of 25 on board. [5]
April 16
An Aigle Azur C-47A (registration F-BESS) crashed 94 mi northwest of Hanoi after a wing separated soon after takeoff, killing all 30 on board. The aircraft was operating a Hanoi-Na San military charter flight. [6]
May 9
An Air India C-47A (registration VT-AUD) crashed near Delhi while en route to Ahmedabad due to pilot error, killing all 18 on board. [7]
May 17
Delta Air Lines Flight 318 (a DC-3DST-318, registration N28345) crashed 13 mi east of Marshall, Texas after entering a downdraft in a thunderstorm, killing 19 of 20 on board (only a passenger survived). The aircraft was operating a Dallas-Shreveport-Atlanta service. [8]
May 24
A Meteor Air Transport DC-3C (registration N35396) was being ferried from Teterboro to St. Louis when it crashed at Lambert International Airport due to fuel exhaustion and loss of control caused by crew error, killing six of seven on board (only a passenger survived). [9]
May 27
Aeroflot Flight 18 (an Li-2, registration CCCP-L4534) collided in mid-air with an Aeroflot Li-2T (CCCP-A4031) near Kemerovo, killing all 27 on board both aircraft. CCCP-A4031 was operating an aerial photography flight; CCCP-L4534 was operating an Irkutsk-Krasnoyarsk-Novosibirsk passenger service. [10]
June 16
An Aigle Azur C-47A (registration F-BEST) crashed at Phou-Lassi Hill after an in-flight fire while on a Vientiane-Saigon service, killing all 34 on board; the wreckage was found on June 29. [11]
June 29
A Western Air Lines DC-3A (registration N15569) crashed at Los Angeles International Airport due to a maintenance error, killing one of three on board. [12]
July 6
Aeroflot Flight 878 (an Li-2, registration CCCP-L4027) disappeared with seven on board while on a Khorog-Stalinabad cargo service; the wreckage was found two days later 15 km (9.3 mi) northwest of Rushan; the aircraft had struck a mountain while flying too low. [13]
July 10
A USAF Douglas C-47D (registration 43-48803) collided in mid-air with a Norwegian Air Force Republic F-84 Thunderjet near Sola Airport, killing all 11 on board both aircraft. [14]
August 3
An Orient Airways C-47-DL (registration AP-AAD) crashed near Sharjah Airport due to crew error while on a Karachi-Sharjah-Bahrain-Jeddah service, killing one of 25 on board. [15]
September 1
A Regina Cargo Airlines C-49K (registration N19941) crashed 12 mi southeast of Vail, Washington due to pilot error, killing all 21 on board. [16]
September 8
A TACA de Honduras C-47A (registration XH-TAR) crashed near San Andres due to engine failure while on a San Pedro Sula-San Andres cargo service, killing all three on board. [17]
September 25
A Devlet Turk Yollari C-47A (registration TC-EGE) crashed on climbout from Ankara Airport due to an engine fire, killing five of 21 on board. [18]
October 21
Aeroflot Flight 525 (an Li-2, registration CCCP-L4890) crashed near Mineralnye Vody due to crew and ATC errors, killing the pilot; all three passengers and remaining four crew survived; the aircraft was operating a Sverdlovsk-Stalingrad-Mineralnye Vody passenger service. [19]
October 31
Aeroflot Flight 270 (an Li-2, registration CCCP-L4732) crashed near Kharkiv due to crew error while on approach, killing 15 of 16 on board; the aircraft was operating a Roston-on-Don-Kharkiv-Moscow passenger service. [20]
November 3
A Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano DC-3-314 (registration CP-600) crashed in the Rodeo Pampa mountains, killing all 28 on board. [21]
December 12
An Indian Airlines C-47A (registration VT-CHF) crashed on climbout from Sonegaon Airport after a loss of altitude, killing 13 of 14 on board. [22]

See also

Related Research Articles

Tupolev Tu-104 Former Soviet airliner

The Tupolev Tu-104 is a retired twinjet, medium-range, narrow-body turbojet-powered Soviet airliner. It was the second to enter regular service, behind the British de Havilland Comet, and was the only jetliner operating in the world from 1956 to 1958, when the British jetliner was grounded due to safety concerns.

Aviaarktika was a Soviet airline which started operations on 1 September 1930 and was absorbed by Aeroflot on 3 January 1960.

Founded in 1923, Aeroflot, the flag carrier and largest airline of Russia, has had a high number of fatal crashes, with a total of 8,231 passengers dying in Aeroflot crashes according to the Aircraft Crashes Record Office, mostly during the Soviet-era, about five times more than any other airline. From 1946 to 1989, the carrier was involved in 721 incidents. From 1995 to 2017, the carrier was involved in 10 incidents. In 2013, AirlineRatings.com reported that five of the ten aircraft models involved in the highest numbers of fatal accidents were old Soviet models.

Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1960s

Following is a list of accidents and incidents Aeroflot experienced in the 1960s. The deadliest event the Soviet Union's flag carrier went through in the decade occurred in November 1967, when an Ilyushin Il-18V crashed upside down shortly after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport in Sverdlovsk, then located in the Russian SSR, killing all 107 occupants on board, prompting the temporary grounding of the type within the airline's fleet. In terms of fatalities, the accident ranks as the fifth worst involving an Il-18, as of April 2016. Another aircraft of the type was involved in the second deadliest accident the airline experienced in the decade, this time in September 1964, when 87 people were killed when the aircraft struck a hillside on approach to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The decade was also marked by the only deadly accident experienced by a Tupolev Tu-114, which entered commercial service on the Moscow–Khabarovsk route in April 1961.

Following is a list of accidents and incidents Aeroflot experienced in the 1950s. The deadliest event the Soviet Union's flag carrier went through in the decade occurred in October 1958, when a Tupolev Tu-104 crashed en route to Sverdlovsk, then located in the Russian SSR, killing all 80 occupants on board. In terms of fatalities, the accident ranks as the eighth worst accident involving a Tu-104, as of July 2016. Another aircraft of the type was involved in the second deadliest accident the airline experienced in the decade, this time in August 1958, when 64 people were killed when the aircraft crashed near Chita after entering an updraft. The Tu-104's tail was modified and the service ceiling lowered in the wake of these two accidents.

References

  1. ↑ Accident descriptionfor EI-ACF at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  2. ↑ Accident descriptionfor CCCP-Zh125 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 7 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Accident descriptionfor I-LAIL at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  4. ↑ Accident descriptionfor F-BEFG at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  5. ↑ Accident descriptionfor N65743 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  6. ↑ Accident descriptionfor F-BESS at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  7. ↑ Accident descriptionfor PP-VDL at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  8. ↑ Accident descriptionfor N28345 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  9. ↑ Accident descriptionfor N35396 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  10. ↑ "Столкновение Ли-2 Восточно-Сибирского ТУ ГВФ и Ли-2 Западно-Сибирского ТУ ГВФ севернее Кемерово" [Mid-air collision Li-2 near Kemerovo] (in Russian). airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  11. ↑ Accident descriptionfor F-BEST at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  12. ↑ Accident descriptionfor N15569 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "Катастрофа Ли-2 Таджикского ТУ ГВФ близ Рушана" [Accident Li-2 near Rushan] (in Russian). airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  14. ↑ Accident descriptionfor 43-48803 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  15. ↑ Accident descriptionfor AP-AAD at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  16. ↑ Accident descriptionfor N19941 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  17. ↑ Accident descriptionfor XH-TAR at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  18. ↑ Accident descriptionfor TC-EGE at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  19. ↑ "Катастрофа Ли-2 Свердловской авиагруппы ЗС ТУ ГВФ близ а/п Минеральные Воды" [Accident Li-2 near Mineralnye Vody] (in Russian). airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  20. ↑ "Катастрофа Ли-2 Северо-Кавказского ТУ ГВФ близ а/п Харьков (Основа)" [Accident Li-2 near Kharkiv (Kharkov)] (in Russian). airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  21. ↑ Accident descriptionfor CP-600 at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.
  22. ↑ Accident descriptionfor VT-CHF at the Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved on 17 May 2013.

Notes

^Note A Military versions of the DC-3 were known as C-47 Skytrain, C-48, C-49, C-50, C-51, C-52, C-53 Skytrooper, C-68, C-84, C-117 Super Dakota and YC-129 by the United States Army Air Forces and as the R4D by the United States Navy. In Royal Air Force (and other British Commonwealth air forces') service, these aircraft were known as Dakotas.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.