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DC 3 down near Berlin
Hi, just did hear this one but no additional details. Has anyone more info ?
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I know they tried to return to the runway shortly after take-off but obviously did not make it.
Another traffic in the area reported them down somewhere near the threshold 07 and the construction site of BBI. The airport was closed for about 15-20 minutes and media reports 4-7 injured passengers but nothing severe. click |
Associated Press:
BERLIN — A spokesman for Berlin's Schoenefeld airport says a DC3 plane carrying 25 tourists has made an emergency landing near the airport and seven passengers were slightly injured. Spokesman Ralf Kunkel said in a statement Saturday that it was not clear why the plane — a so called "raisin bomber" that takes tourists on tours commemorating the post-World War II Berlin Airlift — had to make the emergency landing right after takeoff Saturday afternoon. Kunkel said all 25 passengers and three crew members left the plane under their own power. Schoenefeld airport was closed for 15 minutes but has reopened. |
More here (in German) including a photo: Berliner Kurier - Rosinenbomber notgelandet: Verletzte
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Berlin Airlift, you know.
Plane was three years younger than I. Saw it often flying around. Thought I should take the trip some day.... Will be missed if they are not able to put it together. |
Photos from the site shows a very damaged Rosinenbomber. Large parts of the right wing was ripped off after a crash with a fence post close to a crash gate.
http://www.bz-berlin.de/multimedia/a...la_2386916.jpg http://www.tagesspiegel.de/images/schoene3/1863996.jpg Right wing |
Good 'ol DC-3. Strong as ever and I am sure the pax/crew were lucky to be in a DC 3 and not some plastic at 210kts clean into that field! Just unfortunate the numbers of DC-3's are not increasing.
Good job to the crew:ok: |
Looks a bit like a prop blade sticking straight up from the port donk - if that is indeed what it is then it was not rotating at impact.
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That looks expensive :( |
That should buff out...
Well, the outer wing just bolts on to the inner stub wing outboard of the engine nacelle. See the story of the DC-2 1/2, for instance.
I was surprised to see a DC-3 being repaired with a shiny-new wingtip after the old one had been mangled in an argument with a telephone pole guy wire at Miami International about 30 years ago. The mechanic laughed and told me that there were warehouses full of DC-3 spares because so much stuff was produced during the War. If that still includes wings then this might not be so bad. Fixing the engine might be more troublesome. |
Good to know that all are okay. I would suggest that the term write-off is not in the vocabulary of the warbird community.
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Was once KN442 of the RAF (1945-1952), and G-AMPZ of Air Atlantique. Always sad to see a Dak get bent.
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G-AMPZ was the first Dak I flew in at West Malling in the mid-80s GWAS. :eek:
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Just unfortunate the numbers of DC-3's are not increasing.
Now the Twin Otter is back in production, maybe the DC-3 should be next. :ok: |
The Only Replacement for a DC3 is...another DC3.
xoxoxoxoxoxDC3
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I just love them
Interesting: Out of the five DC-3s that I used to fly in as a pax way back then as a kid, two or three, and probably more, have ended up fatal. Yet, I would like fly in them if an opportunity arose.
RD |
Never mind the fin, I would be more worried about the orange glow coming from where No2 fuel, hydraulic, oil and alcohol lines are!
My guess regarding the fin, RFFS did not want to get downwind and this is the only direction to get the foam nozzle over the fuselage towards aforementioned No2. Damaged in the process. Poor old girl, knew her well not so long ago. She will be back in the air do not worry about that:) |
Interesting pic - the fin is still intact here, but clearly damaged in the later shots. Ah well farewell PZ queen of the skies. |
Was that G-AMPZ?
Bugger! In flew in that girl (baxseating) many many many times. Not nice to think of her as dead. It's a bit like hearing that a great-aunt has died. |
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