Amsterdam – Copenhagen – Stockholm

On January 26, 1947 at 03:32 PM, Amsterdam – Copenhagen – Stockholm experienced a crash involving Douglas DC-3, operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij, with the event recorded near Copenhagen-Kastrup Hovedstaden.

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

22 people were known to be on board, 22 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 6, passengers on board: 16, passenger fatalities: 16, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Less than one minute after takeoff from Kastrup Airport, while climbing to a height of 200 feet with a 40 km/h wind from the northeast, the aircraft nosed down and crashed in a huge explosion in a snow covered field located 1,000 meters from the airport. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire and all 22 occupants were killed, among them Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, grandson of the King Gustaf V, and the US singer Grace Moore. Crew: G. J. Geysendorffer, pilot, G. J. Rietman, copilot, S. M. A. Pijnenburg, radio operator, W. Brandenburg, radio operator, W. A. van Bommel, flight engineer, H. Hoek, steward.

Aircraft reference details include registration PH-TCR, MSN 14034/25479, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 55.6309°, 12.6492°.