1956 Lom air accident
Czechoslovak Air Force Douglas DC-3 · Bad weather, loss of control
From Pardubice Airport, Pardubice, Czechoslovakia to Prešov Air Base, Prešov, Czechoslovakia
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
- 21 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
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
- D-13
- Operator
- Czechoslovak Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 21
- Route
- From Pardubice Airport, Pardubice, CzechoslovakiaTo Prešov Air Base, Prešov, Czechoslovakia
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 1956 Lom air accident occurred on 3 July 1956, when a Czechoslovak Air Force Douglas C-47 en route from Pardubice to Prešov in Czechoslovakia crashed near Lom in central Slovakia. On the flight were 15 passengers and a crew of six. All 21 were killed in the accident.
While flying at an altitude of three kilometres, the flight ran into a storm near Zvolen. The violent storm damaged the aircraft's wings and horizontal stabilizers, which led to a loss of control and a crash.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Finnish Wikipedia article “Lomin lento-onnettomuus 1956” (revision 18535863, 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: Lomin lento-onnettomuus 1956
- Article
- Lomin lento-onnettomuus 1956
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 18535863 · 2019-11-15 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q56399612
- 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 "Lomin lento-onnettomuus 1956" (page 1417353, revision 18535863), 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
- 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.