Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) crash, Dec 7, 1965 (32 killed)

Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) accident on December 7, 1965 near Tenerife-Norte-Los Rodeos Canary Islands, Spain with 32 fatalities.

The non scheduled flight from Tenerife to Las Palmas took off from runway 30 at Tenerife Airport on an IFR flight plan on 7 December 1965. It was lost from tower view in low cloud shortly after takeoff and was later determined to have dived into the ground a few kilometres from the airfield, killing all 32 occupants.

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