What the records say
- When
- 11 Aug 1955
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 48.54° N, 8.54° E
- Description
- mid-air collision
- Deaths
- 66
- Injured
- 0
1955 Altensteig mid-air collision
Aviation accident in Germany
The Altensteig mid-air collision occurred on 11 August 1955 when two United States Air Force Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcars collided and crashed three miles from Altensteig in West Germany. The aircraft were part of a formation of nine C-119s flying a training mission from Stuttgart-Echterdingen airfield, West Germany with troops from the United States Seventh Army.
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