| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 26 January 1947 (1947-01-26) |
| Summary | Failure to properly prepare aircraft for flight |
| Site | Kastrup, Denmark 55°37′5″N 12°39′22.5″E / 55.61806°N 12.656250°E / 55.61806; 12.656250 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas DC-3 |
| Operator | KLM |
| Registration | PH-TCR |
| Flight origin | Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Stopover | Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Destination | Stockholm Bromma Airport, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupants | 22 |
| Passengers | 16 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 22 |
| Survivors | 0 |
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.
Among those killed in the crash were Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (at the time of his death, second in line to the Swedish throne), U.S. opera singer Grace Moore, and Danish actress Gerda Neumann. Prince Gustaf Adolf was the father of the present king of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf. Moore's body was first flown to Paris on another KLM aircraft, and then to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she was buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery, during a ceremony attended by around eight thousand people.
The probable cause of the crash was determined to be failure to remove the gust locks that had secured the aircraft's elevators while it was parked. It was the worst aviation disaster in Denmark at the time of the crash.
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An aircraft similar to the one involved
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Route map
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Wreckage of the aircraft
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References
- "Accident Synopsis – 1947-12". planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- "Prince and opera star killed in plane crash". Ottawa Citizen. Associated Press. 24 January 1947. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- "Grace Moore's Body From Plane 1947". Pathé News. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- Brown, Fred (2005). Marking Time: East Tennessee Historical Markers and the Stories Behind Them. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-57233-330-7.
- Strickland, Justin W. (2009). Chattanooga's Terminal Station. Charleston SC, Chicago IL, Portsmouth NH, San Francisco CA: Arcadia Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7385-6808-9.
- Moore, Gay Morgan (2012). Chattanooga's St. Elmo. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7385-9433-0.
- ^ "Douglas DC-3C (C-47A-30-DK) PH-TCR Kobenhavn-Kastrup Airport". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
External links
Media related to Air disaster at Kastrup 1947 at Wikimedia Commons
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| Aviation accidents and incidents in 1947 (1947) | |
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| Jan 11 Stowting Dakota accidentJan 25 Croydon Dakota accidentJan 26 KLM Copenhagen disasterFeb 15 Avianca Douglas DC-4 crashMay 29 United Air Lines Flight 521May 29 Héðinsfjörður air crashMay 30 Eastern Air Lines Flight 605Jun 13 Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410Jun 19 Pan Am Flight 121Jul 29 Yogyakarta Dakota incidentAug 2 BSAA Star Dust accidentAug 28 Kvitbjørn disasterOct 24 United Air Lines Flight 608Oct 26 Pan Am Flight 923Nov 28 General Leclerc's aviation accidentDec 27 Korangi Creek crash | |
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