Raunheim plane crash
United States Air Force Fairchild C-82 Packet · In the Raunheim plane crash, on the morning of 28 January 1952 a US Air Force transport aircraft crashed into the Hessian town of Raunheim
From an unrecorded airport to Rhein-Main Air Base
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Fairchild C-82 Packet
- Aircraft type
- Fairchild C-82
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 45-57791
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From not recordedTo Rhein-Main Air Base
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
In the Raunheim plane crash, on the morning of 28 January 1952 a US Air Force transport aircraft crashed into the Hessian town of Raunheim. The Fairchild C-82 with the registration 45-57791 and the serial number 10161 was flying in formation with eleven other aircraft of the same type when it suddenly caught fire.
Three residents of the house at Haßlocher Straße 28 were killed. The five-member crew of the aircraft was able to bail out by parachute. The commander had still tried to set the flight path of the burning aircraft in advance so that it would crash in open fields. However, the aircraft clipped a mast and was thereby steered directly onto the only two houses in the immediate vicinity.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugzeugabsturz von Raunheim” (revision 255969549, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugzeugabsturz von Raunheim
- Article
- Flugzeugabsturz von Raunheim
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 255969549 · 2025-05-13 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15110808
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugzeugabsturz von Raunheim" (page 7808529, revision 255969549), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.