Škapová mountain air accident
Czech Airlines Douglas DC-3 · Collision with a mountain
From M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS) to Košice International Airport (KSC)
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
- 22 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 4
- 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
- Airline
Douglas DC-3
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-3
- 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
- OK-WDZ
- Operator
- Czech Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 22
- Route
- From M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS)To Košice International Airport (KSC)
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
The Škapová mountain air accident occurred on 18 January 1956, when a ČSA Československé Aerolinie Douglas C-47 en route from Bratislava to Košice in Czechoslovakia struck Škapová mountain in the northern part of Slovakia. On the flight were 22 passengers and a crew of four. Four passengers survived the impact; the other 22 people on board were killed.
The flight was originally en route to Košice, but because of the bad weather prevailing there it had to fly to an alternate airfield, Poprad-Tatry Airport. A strong wind, however, blew the aircraft off its route. It eventually drifted 11 kilometres east and 3.5 kilometres north of the approach route, ending up over a mountainous area. There it descended and struck a mountain.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Finnish Wikipedia article “Škapová-vuoren lento-onnettomuus” (revision 16898964, 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
Finnish Wikipedia article: Škapová-vuoren lento-onnettomuus
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 16898964 · 2017-11-15 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q56399613
- 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
- fi Wikipedia article "Škapová-vuoren lento-onnettomuus" (page 1417344, revision 16898964), 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 airline 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 Finnish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.