On August 6, 1961, a Malév Hungarian Airlines Douglas TS-62 passenger aircraft, registration HA-TSA, crashed during a sightseeing flight in a residential area in the 14th district of Budapest, Hungary, killing all 27 people on board and three others on the ground.

On Sunday, 6 August 1961, the aircraft made sightseeing flights over Budapest under the command of Captain Róbert Hoffmann.

The nose lifted due to the elevator being held too long, the aircraft rolled to the right and then, with a severe loss of speed, turned onto its back and crashed into the apartment building at 224 Lumumba Street in a corkscrew.

On 19 November 1951, the aircraft was due to fly from Erding, West Germany, to Belgrade, Yugoslavia with four American soldiers on board.

That day, a strong southwest wind pushed the airplane towards the Hungarian border, and the pilots realised too late that they had arrived to the Mecsek mountains instead of the Yugoslav capital, where the air force tried to shoot it down, but without success.

It was used by the Hungarian Air Force from 1952 to 1956 (with registration 026), but due to lack of documentation and spare parts it was out of the line, but it fitted in with the Lisunov Li-2s used by Malév, as they were manufactured by the Soviets under the Douglas DC-3 licence.

[7][9] Investigations later found that the aircraft was technically sound, most likely the crew had let the passengers into the cockpit in violation of the rules of flight, and were performing wake and tight turns at low altitude for their amusement.

Although the aircraft's load was 145 kilograms below the maximum permitted, 23 passengers were irregularly allocated to the 21 seats, while a total of 10 tickets were sold for the flight.