Date: | Saturday 15 May 1948 |
Time: | 07:20 |
Type: | Douglas C-49K (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Mercury Aviation Services |
Registration: | ZS-BWY |
MSN: | 6341 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 32 km S of Vrede -
South Africa
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Durban-Stamford Hill Airport |
Destination airport: | Johannesburg-Palmietfontein Airport |
Narrative:The aircraft was on the Durban-Johannesburg leg of a flight to London when it crashed into Spitzkop mountain in the Witkoppens Mountains. The aircraft, named "City of Durban", was 8 miles off track in bad weather.
Sources:
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 47)
Statistics
- 50th worst accident in 1948
- 446th worst accident of this aircraft type
- 192nd worst accident of this aircraft type at the time
Images:
![](/photos/wiki/1948/19480515_DC3_ZS-BWY_11730.jpg)
photo (c) Ken Fuller; nr Vrede; May 1948
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