DC-6 crash on Parnon
Trans Mediterranean Airways (TMA) Douglas DC-6 · Collision with a mountain
From Beirut (Lebanon) to Frankfurt am Main (FRG)
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
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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-6
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-6
- 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
- OD-AEL
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Beirut (Lebanon)To Frankfurt am Main (FRG)
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 DC-6 crash on Parnon was an aviation accident that occurred on Thursday 10 March 1966 on the Parnon range near Athens involving a Douglas DC-6A of Trans Mediterranean Airways, killing 5 people.
Crash
The aircraft was operating a cargo flight from Beirut (Lebanon) to Frankfurt am Main (FRG) with an intermediate stop in Athens (Greece). The crew consisted of 5 people. However, while descending towards Athens airport the aircraft struck the Parnon mountains and was completely destroyed, and everyone on board was killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа DC-6 на Парноне” (revision 149405759, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа DC-6 на Парноне
- Article
- Катастрофа DC-6 на Парноне
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 149405759 · 2025-10-28 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q18398543
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа DC-6 на Парноне" (page 5134600, revision 149405759), 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 Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.