1948 Gatow air disaster
The 1948 Gatow air disaster was a mid-air collision in the airspace above Berlin, Germany that occurred on 5 April, sparking an international incident. A British European Airways (BEA) Vickers VC.1B Viking airliner crashed near RAF Gatow air base, after it collided with a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter aircraft. All ten passengers and four crew on board the Viking were killed, as was the Soviet pilot. The disaster resulted in a diplomatic standoff between the United Kingdom and United States on one hand, and the Soviet Union on the other, and intensified distrust leading up to the Berlin Blockade in the early years of the Cold War.
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1948 Gatow air disaster
The 1948 Gatow air disaster was a mid-air collision in the airspace above Berlin, Germany that occurred on 5 April, sparking an international incident. A British European Airways (BEA) Vickers VC.1B Viking airliner crashed near RAF Gatow air base, after it collided with a Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter aircraft. All ten passengers and four crew on board the Viking were killed, as was the Soviet pilot. The disaster resulted in a diplomatic standoff between the United Kingdom and United States on one hand, and the Soviet Union on the other, and intensified distrust leading up to the Berlin Blockade in the early years of the Cold War.
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The 1948 Gatow air disaster wa ...... e early years of the Cold War.
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Zderzenie samolotów w Gatow – ...... graniczenie lotów patrolowych.
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كارثة جاتو الجوية حصلت يوم الإ ...... فة إلى قائد الطائرة السوفييتية
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1948-04-05
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A BEA Vickers Viking 1B similar to the accident aircraft at Manchester in August 1952
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RAF Gatow
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United Kingdom
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A Yak-3 similar to the accident aircraft
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Berlin, Germany
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near RAF Gatow
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52.474 13.138
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The 1948 Gatow air disaster wa ...... e early years of the Cold War.
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Zderzenie samolotów w Gatow – ...... radziecki również zginął na mi
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كارثة جاتو الجوية حصلت يوم الإ ...... فة إلى قائد الطائرة السوفييتية
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1948 Gatow air disaster
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Zderzenie samolotów na Gatow
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حادثة جاتو الجوية 1948
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