Accident | |
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Date | 25 January 1947 |
Summary | Loss of control |
Site | Croydon Airport 51°21′11″N 0°07′01″W / 51.353°N 0.117°W |
Total fatalities | 12 |
Total survivors | 13 |
First aircraft | |
Type | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
Operator | Spencer Airways |
Registration | VP-YFD.[Note 1] |
Flight origin | Croydon Airport |
Stopover | Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, Rome, Italy |
Destination | Salisbury, Rhodesia |
Passengers | 18 |
Crew | 5 |
Fatalities | 12 |
Survivors | 11 |
Second aircraft | |
Type | Douglas C-47A Skytrain |
Operator | ČSA |
Registration | OK-WDB |
Passengers | 0 |
Crew | 2 |
Survivors | 2 |
The 1947 Croydon Dakota accident occurred on 25 January 1947 when a Spencer Airways Douglas C-47A Skytrain (Dakota) [Note 2] failed to get airborne from Croydon Airport near London, and crashed into a parked and empty ČSA Douglas C-47 destroying both aircraft and killing 11 passengers and one crew member.[1][2][3]
The Ministry of Civil Aviation, named the dead as: Sisters Rousselot, Lester and Martin, of La Sagesse Convent, London, N.W.; Mr. and Mrs. Cond and their two children; Miss Cecilia Beckett, Mr. Mervyn Frazer, Mrs. Warren, of Dublin, Mr. Schauder and Captain E. Spencer.
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