Aircraft collision over the Dippoldiswalde Heath
United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-17G-90-VE · Collision with another aircraft
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
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 2
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Aircraft type
- Boeing B-17
- 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
- 43-39110
- Operator
- United States Army Air Forces
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From RAF PodingtonTo Dresden-Friedrichstadt marshalling yard
Aircraft 2 · Boeing B-17G-90-VE
- Aircraft type
- Boeing B-17
- 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
- 44-8903
- Operator
- United States Army Air Forces
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Not stated
- Survivors
- 2
- 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
- Not stated
- Route
- From RAF PodingtonTo Dresden-Friedrichstadt marshalling yard
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On 17 April 1945, two Boeing B-17 bombers of the 92nd Bombardment Group of the USAAF collided over the Dippoldiswalde Heath in Saxony (Dippoldiswalde, Antonsweg).
As a result, both aircraft crashed, and 12 of the 16 crew members were killed. The other aircraft of the group bombed the city of Dresden, a few kilometres away, from 14:13 onwards.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugzeugkollision über der Dippoldiswalder Heide” (revision 259497110, 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: Flugzeugkollision über der Dippoldiswalder Heide
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 259497110 · 2025-09-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15220373
- 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 "Flugzeugkollision über der Dippoldiswalder Heide" (page 7980119, revision 259497110), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- 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.