The 1948 Gatow air disaster was a mid-air collision in the airspace above Berlin, Germany that occurred on 5 April, sparking an international incident...
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mid-air collision 1938 Japan mid-air collision American Airlines Flight 28 Eastern Air Lines Flight 45 1948 Gatow air disaster 1948 Northwood mid-air collision...
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the 1948 Gatow air disaster, a British European Airways Vickers VC.1 Viking crashed near RAF Gatow, Berlin, following a collision with a Soviet Air Force...
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1948 in Germany. March 1 - Bank deutscher Länder was founded. April 3 - Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung is first published. April 5 - The 1948 Gatow air...
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Berlin Blockade (redirect from Berlin air lift)
Gatow airfield, killing all aboard both aircraft. Later dubbed the Gatow air disaster, this event exacerbated tensions between the Soviets and the other...
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Reuter becomes mayor. 31 December: Population: 3,271,179. 1948 5 April: 1948 Gatow air disaster. 24 June: Soviet blockade begins. 26 June: Allied airlift...
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statistics and summaries of over 100 midair collisions in U.S. from 1948 to 1957 Analysis of Mid-Air Collisions, One of the most hazardous consequences of a loss...
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Illinois The Gatow air disaster occurred when a British European Airways airliner crashed near RAF Gatow air base in southwest Berlin after a mid-air collision...
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wide northern corridor to RAF Gatow, and then later to the partially completed Tegel airport in November and December 1948, a total of 6,041 flight hours...
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accurate detail in descriptions of places, such as in Air Bridge (1951), set partially at RAF Gatow, RAF Membury after its closure and RAF Wunstorf during...
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events from 1948: Publication of Nevil Shute's novel No Highway set in the world of research into aviation safety. The United States Air Force has 20...
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English Electric Lightning (section Royal Air Force)
XN730 Lightning F.2A at the Militärhistorisches Museum Flugplatz Berlin-Gatow, Germany. On display 53–418 Lightning F.53 at the Kuwait Science and Natural...
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British European Airways (section British Air Services)
"Gatow Air Crash – Court of Inquiry Report" The Times 20 April 1948 p. 4 "Gatow Air Crash – Soviet Criticisms and Demands" The Times 23 April 1948 p...
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numbers of Yorks were used for air-supply missions during the Berlin Blockade 1948–49. A number of the type were used as air transports of heads of state...
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Airflight (category Airlines established in 1948)
sorties carrying over 9 tons of supplies per flight between Wunsdorf and Gatow. At the end of the Berlin Airlift the aircraft were used for trooping charters...
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December 1948: An RAF York crashed on landing at Gatow, West Berlin. 14 December 1948: Two RAF Yorks crashed, one on take-off and one landing at RAF Gatow, West...
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Division, and a British brigade were to seize the Tempelhof, Rangsdorf, Gatow, Staaken, and Oranienburg airfields. In Berlin, the Reichsbanner resistance...
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Court Line (redirect from Argus Air Transport)
Risk: The Politics of the Air. London: Sidgwick and Jackson. ISBN 0-283-99599-8. "Jets Monthly (Airline History — Courting DISASTER)". Cudham: Kelsey Publishing...
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und Technik, an East German youth military training organization, at RAF Gatow. His aircraft, registration DDR-WOH, was dismantled and returned to the...
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became president of the Technisches Hilfswerk. The civil protection and disaster relief service of Germany. Initially, his deputy Wilfried Graefling became...
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noteworthy, not all the incidents listed involved fatalities. Lists of disasters Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-3 N67589 Santa Maria...
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the Aviation Safety Network "Two Killed in Air Crash on Mt Macedon". The Canberra Times. 9 November 1948. Retrieved 16 October 2016. "Kurana Memorial"...
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Centre. 23 October 2019. Carr, Flora (19 August 2018). "'The space shuttle disaster Reunion was heartbreaking': Radio 4's Sue Macgregor recalls her most memorable...
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