- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: November 03, 1957
Time: 0703
Location: Dusseldorf, West Germany
Operator: Herfurtner Company
Flight #: ?
Route: Düsseldorf - Reykjavik - New York
AC Type: Douglas DC-4
Registration: D-ALAF
cn / ln: 459
Aboard: 10   (passengers:3  crew:7)
Fatalities: 7   (passengers:0  crew:6)
Ground: 1
Summary: Crashed shortly after taking off. The aircraft plunged into the suburb of Derendorf, setting afire an office building and crushing a small house. The lone occupant of the the house, an elderly woman, was killed
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