Airplane Crash - Nagpur, India 02/19/1952
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Nagpur, India
| Date | 02/19/1952 |
| Time | 02:23 |
| Location | Nagpur, India |
| Operator | Deccan Airways |
| Type | Douglas DC-3 |
| Registration | VT-AXE |
| Cn/In | 19160 |
| Aboard | 16 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | Banked left and struck trees 2,000 ft. short of the runway. Pilot error. The pilot misjudged the approach, undershot and hit the tops trees. A contributing factor was the setting of the pilot's altimeter to QNH, rather than the customary QFE during the final approach. |
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