What the records say
- When
- 26 Jan 1947
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 55.62° N, 12.66° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 22
1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 crash
Aviation crash in Copenhagen, Denmark
The 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 crash refers to the crash of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm via Copenhagen on 26 January. It occurred shortly after the Douglas DC-3 took off from Kastrup Airport in Denmark. All 16 passengers and 6 crew members on board were killed.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A KLM Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes soon after taking off from Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, killing all 22 people on board, including Prince Gustaf Adolf”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Absturz einer Douglas DC-3 auf dem Flughafen Kastrup bei Kopenhagen kommen alle 22 Insassen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Копенгагене разбился самолёт Douglas C-47A-30-DK”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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