Blackbushe – Prague

On October 5, 1945 at 12:45 PM, Blackbushe – Prague experienced a crash involving Consolidated B-24 Liberator, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Blackbushe Hampshire.

The flight was categorized as humanitarian and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

23 people were known to be on board, 23 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 5, passengers on board: 18, passenger fatalities: 18, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Shortly after takeoff from Blackbushe, while in initial climb, the engine number two caught fire. The aircraft stalled and crashed in a huge explosion in a field located 2 miles from the airport. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire and all 23 occupants were killed. All of them were Czech citizens being repatriated to their country at the war's end, among them 5 kids. Crew (311th Squadron): P/O Jaroslav Kudlácek, pilot, W/O Antonin Broz, copilot, P/O Karel Rybnícek, navigator, F/Sgt Zdenak Sedlák, flight engineer, F/O Bohumil Vaverka. Passengers: Ruzena Lichtensteinová, Marta Obrazová, Marina Paulinyová Michal Richter, Anna Rosenblumová, Jiri Rosenblum, Antonie Šafranek, Eva ŠafrankovÁ, Otto Schwarz, Ladíslav Spbeslavsky, Margita Sobeslavská, Marenka Sobeslavská, Ota Trinks, Irma Trinksová, Helena Wodaková, Greta Žaldová, Helena Žaldová. Source: https://fcafa.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/blackbushe-5-october-1945/

Aircraft reference details include registration KG867, MSN 963.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 51.3242°, -0.8451°.