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Crashed DC3 Plane - Southern Iceland

On Saturday Nov 24, 1973 a United States Navy Douglas Super DC-3 airplane was forced to land on Sólheimasandur’s black sand beach in the south of Iceland after experiencing some severe icing.

 

Luckily all crew members survived the crash, but the airplane’s fuselage was abandoned.

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