 | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "1946 Amsterdam KLM Douglas C-47 crash" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
 Wreckage of PH-TBW | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 14 November 1946 (1946-11-14) |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain in poor weather |
| Site | Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
| Operator | KLM |
| Registration | PH-TBW |
| Flight origin | London, United Kingdom |
| Destination | Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands |
| Occupants | 26 |
| Passengers | 21 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Fatalities | 26 |
| Survivors | 0 |
The 1946 KLM Douglas C-47 Amsterdam accident was the crash of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from London to Amsterdam on 14 November 1946. The accident occurred as the aircraft was attempting to land at Amsterdam's airport in poor weather. All 26 passengers and crew on board were killed.
Accident
The civil-use converted C-47 Skytrain was on a scheduled flight from London, England to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The crew was cleared to land the aircraft at Schiphol Airport in poor weather. The first attempt to land failed and the crew had to perform a go-around. The second approach to land also failed. On the third approach to land the aircraft made a sudden turn to the left, apparently trying to line up with the runway. During this turn the aircraft struck the ground and crashed. The aircraft caught fire on impact, killing all 21 passengers and five crew on board. The victims included Dutch novelist Herman de Man.
At the time it happened, the accident was the worst aviation accident in the history of the Netherlands. Eight days earlier another KLM DC-3 operating on the same route in the opposite direction, crashed on approach to London's Croydon Airport in poor weather. There were no fatalities in the London crash but the aircraft was written off.
References
- ^ Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-90-DL PH-TBW Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport
- Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-90-DL PH-TBO near Shere, 6 November 1946 retrieved 8 July 2012
External links
| Aviation accidents and incidents in the Netherlands | |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1930s |
|
| 1940s–1960s |
|
| 1970s–1990s |
|
| 2000s–2020s |
|
| Aviation accidents and incidents in 1946 (1946) | |
|---|---|
| Jan 6 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 105Jan 14 Kolpny Li-2 crashMar 3 American Airlines Flight 6-103Mar 10 Australian National Airways DC-3 crashApr 5 Rabat Vickers Wellington crashApr 8 USAF C-47 Yan'an crashJul 9 Mount Tom B-17 crashJul 11 TWA Flight 513Aug 7 British European Airways Flight 530Oct 3 AOA Douglas DC-4 Flagship New EnglandOct 7 Apeldoorn aircraft crashNov 5 Vnukovo aircraft crashesNov 14 Amsterdam KLM Douglas C-47 crashNov 19 C-53 Gauli Glacier crashDec 19 Railway Air Services Dakota crashDec 25 Black Christmas disasterDec 28 TWA Flight 6963Dec 28 American Airlines Flight 2207Dec 30 PBM Mariner Antarctica crash | |
| 1945 ◄ ► 1947 |