1960 Munich C-131 crash
Accident | |
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Date | 17 December 1960 |
Summary | Take-off failure |
Site | West of Munich-Riem Airport, Munich, West Germany 48°8′20″N 11°32′59″E / 48.13889°N 11.54972°E |
Total fatalities | 52 (including 32 on the ground) |
Total injuries | 20 (on the ground) |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Convair C-131D (CV-340) |
Operator | Third Air Force, United States Air Force |
Registration | 55-0291 |
Flight origin | Munich-Riem Airport |
Destination | RAF Northolt |
Passengers | 13 |
Crew | 7 |
Fatalities | 20 |
Survivors | 0 |
Ground casualties | |
Ground fatalities | 32 |
Ground injuries | 20 |
On 17 December 1960, a
Accident
On 17 December 1960, the Samaritan was due to fly from Munich-Riem airport in Germany to RAF Northolt in the United Kingdom with 13 passengers and 7 crew.
All 13 passengers and 7 crew members on the plane died. 32 people on the ground were killed and 20 were injured.[1] A section of the wing crashed through the roof of a building at Hermann-Lingg-Straße, a block away from the main accident site, without injuring anybody there. The Free Lance-Star, a daily newspaper for Fredricksburg and its surrounding areas, reported that some passengers on the Convair were holiday-bound University of Maryland students who were dependants of military personnel stationed in England.[4]
Aircraft
The accident aircraft, Convair C-131D-CO Samaritan, (c/n 212, company designation: Model 340-79), was a twin piston engined military transport with seating for 44 passengers. Given the military
Investigation
A crash investigation revealed water in the
Aftermath
After the accident, the Munich
Munich had initiated the expansion plans for Munich-Riem Airport in 1954. However, two plane crashes within the Munich city limit in the space of two years, and the
See also
- 1960 New York mid-air collision: two airliners collided on 16 December 1960
- American Airlines Flight 6780: first fatal crash of a Convair 240 on 22 January 1952
- Heathrow Airport, London, UK on 17 January 2008
- List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft
- Lynyrd Skynyrd 1977 CV-240 crash
- 1955 Altensteig mid-air collision
- 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash
- 1964 Machida F-8 crash
- 1977 Yokohama F-4 crash
- 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash
- Cavalese cable car disaster (1998)
References
- ^ Aviation Safety Network. Archivedfrom the original on 13 March 2005. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ a b c "ACCIDENT DETAILS". www.planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ Stankiewitz, Karl (17 December 2020). "Flugzeugabsturz vor 60 Jahren in München: "Gerade ist Furchtbares passiert"" [Plane crash 60 years ago in Munich: "A terrible thing has just happened"]. Abendzeitung München (in German). Archived from the original on 17 December 2020.
- ^ "Munich Plane Crash Kills 50–60 Today". The Free Lance-Star. 17 December 1960. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Royal Air Force Northolt Convair Feature". landair.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 February 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Nachkreigszeit: 1945 bis 1970" [Post-war period: 1945 to 1970]. Muenchen.de (in German). Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "TLF-16". Oldtimerfreunde Feuerwerk Flensburg (in German). 10 June 2018.
- ^ Jaentschi-Haucke, Karin. "Bezirksvereinigung Südbayern" [District Association of Southern Bavaria]. www.vwl.uni-freiburg.de (in German). Archived from the original on 14 September 2001. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "History 1910–1916 Early history". www.ham.airport.de. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
Other sources
- Oberbayerisches Volksblatt / Rosenheimer Anzeiger (No. 293 – year 106), 19 December 1960 (German)
- Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 569/1960 Summary of a TV report (German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- Great Disasters by Editor John Canning, ISBN 0-907407-95-1published by Octopus in 1976.
- Erinnerungen an das Drama in München. Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation: text, video and pictures (German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.