Very sad to hear of the crash in Colombia yesterday involving the DC3 once operated on the European display circuit as N47FK ‘Fifi Kate’ (now registered as HK-4700). The fate of the five persons on board is currently unknown, hoping for good news.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20140508-1
*edited as I misread original report
By: fah619 - 10th May 2014 at 23:40
DC-3 Folks:
Good day!
The same flying machine under a diff logo “Laser” after a landing accident in Colombia c. Nov-2010. Photo via AEC.
By: J Boyle - 10th May 2014 at 19:28
Sad….Condolences to all the family members.
It’s a reminder that some vintage airplanes are still working for a living, doing what they were designed to do and not mere rich men’s toys.
By: Propstrike - 10th May 2014 at 18:13
Very sad.
We see these machines ‘on the circuit’, at shows etc, and they feel as though they are now ‘preserved’ , and with us for all time
Yet look at threads about displays past, and it is sobering how many we always took for granted are now gone.
Then there are those like the Strikemaster, which disappeared off the UK air show circuit, and went off to fight in the Ivory Coast !
By: DGH - 10th May 2014 at 17:51
Condolence’s to the families of those on board.
By: Newforest - 10th May 2014 at 14:47
There were no survivors of the six occupants. R.I.P.
By: Jur - 10th May 2014 at 11:10
Sad news!
Fifi Kate in better days; Aviodrome Lelystad Airport 2006.
By: fah619 - 9th May 2014 at 19:45
DC-3 Folks:
Sad news indeed!
These DC-3s & crews (some females Capt) earn their pay under the most demanding schedules & weather conditions. You may see ’em in U-tube.
Included here is HK-4700 while at the paint shop somewhere in Colombia c. 2011 under another logo “Laser” . Photo via AEC. May all those souls rest in a much better place!
By: Argonaut - 9th May 2014 at 18:34
[ATTACH=CONFIG]228097[/ATTACH]Photo taken in Lelystad in 2004, sad to see another Dak gone.
By: Robert Whitton - 9th May 2014 at 17:14
Farnborough 2000
By: Newforest - 9th May 2014 at 16:43
Sad news indeed. Wreckage has been spotted but not yet accessed.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20140508-1
By: Mike J - 9th May 2014 at 11:55
That’s very sad. It had already been wrecked and repaired once since arriving in Colombia. 🙁
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