Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) crash, Jan 12, 1954 (13 killed)

Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) accident on January 12, 1954 near Prague-Ruzyne Prague, Czech Republic with 13 fatalities.

A CSA Douglas C-47 on a scheduled Prague to Ostrava flight rotated on runway 22 in low visibility and turned sharply left to avoid a chimney. It struck a telephone pole and cables, stalled and crashed in flames in a snow covered field about one km south of the airfield, killing 13 of the 18 aboard.

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