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

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KES6246929
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Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)
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Grunder & Schmidli & Matter
Medium
photograph
Date
1946 AD (C20th AD)
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A Fieseler stork plane equipped with snow runners for landing on the glacier lands on the Gauligletscher in the Bernese Oberland on November 24, 1946. On November 19, 1946, an American military aircraft, a Douglas C-53 Dakota (military version of the DC-3), crashed onto the glacier with twelve people 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.

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Photopress Archiv/Keystone / Bridgeman Images
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accident / plane / aircraft / transport / Switzerland / Europe / crash / tarpaulin / rescue / glacier / stork / 156 / Gauligletscher / plane crash / emergency landing / plane / snow / meiringen
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