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Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)

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KES6243630
Image title
Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)
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Grunder & Schmidli & Matter
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black and white photograph
Date
1946 AD (C20th AD)
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On November 24, 1946, a Fieseler stork aircraft was equipped with snow runners at the Unterbach airfield near Meiringen. On 19 November 1946 an American military aircraft, a Douglas C-53 Dakota (military version of the DC-3), crashed onto the Gauligletscher in the Bernese Oberland with twelve persons on board. All passengers involved in an accident can be rescued alive after an elaborate rescue operation. The two Swiss military pilots Victor Hug and Pista Hitz bring the accident victims to safety with two Fieseler Storch aircraft of the Swiss Army at the airfield Unterbach near Meiringen. This mission is the birth of the flying mountain rescue.

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Photopress Archiv/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
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accident / airport / plane / aircraft / transport / Switzerland / Europe / crash / tarpaulin / rescue / Gauligletscher / dakota / Douglas / C-53 / airfield / runners / Snow shoves / rescue / stork / 156 / usa / emergency landing / plane crash / plane / glacier / meiringen
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