Facts and Figures to Operation „The Big Lift“

	Duration of the operation: 18 June 1948 – 3o Sept. 1949.
	Casualties during Airlift: 76 (31 Americans, 40 English and 5 Germans).
	The daily record of transported goods (16 April 49): 12,940 tons in a single day.
	60,000 spark plugs had to be changed in the airplanes on a monthly basis.
	The costs of the Airlift can be calculated at approx. € 16 billion.
	With 279,962 flights, 2,342,257 tons of goods were flown into Berlin.
	In total, 57,000 people were involved in the operation.
	The sum of total flying hours adds up to a flight time of more than 35 years.
	The total distance of all Airlift flights was 175 million kilometers.

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Operation Airlift