1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 crash

{{Short description|Aviation accident in Copenhagen, Denmark}}

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{{Infobox aircraft occurrence

| name = 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 crash

| occurrence_type = Accident

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| caption = PH-TCR, the aircraft involved in the accident

| date = {{start date|1947|01|26|df=y}}

| type = Failure to properly prepare aircraft for flight

| site = Kastrup, Denmark

| coordinates = {{coord|55|37|5|N|12|39|22.5|E|type:event_region:DK|display=inline,title}}

| aircraft_type = Douglas DC-3

| aircraft_name =

| operator = KLM

| tail_number = PH-TCR

| origin = Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands

| stopover = Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark

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| destination = Stockholm Bromma Airport, Stockholm, Sweden

| occupants = 22

| passengers = 16

| crew = 6

| fatalities = 22

| survivors = 0

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The 1947 KLM Douglas DC-3 crash refers to the crash of a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Stockholm via Copenhagen on 26 January. It occurred shortly after the Douglas DC-3 took off from Kastrup Airport in Denmark. All 16 passengers and 6 crew members on board were killed.{{Cite web | url = http://planecrashinfo.com/1947/1947-12.htm | title = Accident Synopsis – 1947-12| publisher = planecrashinfo.com| accessdate = 5 February 2014}}

Among those killed in the crash were Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden (at the time of his death, second in line to the Swedish throne), U.S. opera singer Grace Moore, and Danish actress Gerda Neumann.{{Cite web | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19470124&id=Ef8uAAAAIBAJ&pg=6112,5069912 | title = Prince and opera star killed in plane crash | work = Ottawa Citizen | agency = Associated Press | date = 24 Jan 1947 | accessdate = 24 Nov 2014}} Prince Gustaf Adolf was the father of the present king of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf. Moore's body was first flown to Paris on another KLM aircraft,{{Cite web | url = http://www.britishpathe.com/video/grace-moores-body-from-plane/query/crashes | publisher = Pathé News | accessdate = 6 February 2014 | title = Grace Moore's Body From Plane 1947}} and then to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she was buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery, during a ceremony attended by around eight thousand people.{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Fred |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sem9B2acPfkC&dq=prince+gustaf+adolf+funeral+1947+hundred+thousand&pg=PA91 |title=Marking Time: East Tennessee Historical Markers and the Stories Behind Them |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-57233-330-7 |location=Knoxville, TN |pages=91 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Strickland |first=Justin W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30Ffg8AfuyYC&dq=grace+moore+buried&pg=PA40 |title=Chattanooga's Terminal Station |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7385-6808-9 |location=Charleston SC, Chicago IL, Portsmouth NH, San Francisco CA |pages=40 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Moore |first=Gay Morgan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhB576aJ7fIC&dq=grace+moore+buried&pg=PA107 |title=Chattanooga's St. Elmo |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-7385-9433-0 |location=Charleston, SC |pages=108 |language=en}}

The probable cause of the crash was determined to be failure to remove the gust locks that had secured the aircraft's elevators while it was parked.{{Cite web | url = http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19470126-0 | title = Douglas DC-3C (C-47A-30-DK) PH-TCR Kobenhavn-Kastrup Airport| publisher = Aviation Safety Network| accessdate = 5 February 2014}} It was the worst aviation disaster in Denmark at the time of the crash.