Crash of the Ju-90 "Brandenburg" in 1940
| Crash of the Ju-90 "Brandenburg" in 1940 | |
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.jpg) A Ju 90 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | icing |
| place | Brauna at Kamenz |
| date | November 8, 1940 |
| Fatalities | 29 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Junkers Ju 90 A |
| operator | German Lufthansa |
| Mark | D-AVMF |
| Surname | Brandenburg |
| Departure airport | Berlin-Tempelhof Central Airport |
| Destination airport | Prague airport |
| Passengers | 23 |
| crew | 6th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Brandenburg had an accident on November 8, 1940 near Brauna near Kamenz in what is today the Bautzen district ( Saxony ). All 29 people on board were killed.
course
The "Brandenburg", a Junkers Ju 90 with the serial number 0010, took off at 2:24 pm from the Berlin-Tempelhof central airport for Prague on route 17. The weather advisors reported light rain on the Berlin-Dresden route with a cloud limit of 300– 600 meters, from Dresden a closed cloud cover up to 1800 meters, above cloudless, predicted. There was no reference to the threat of icing . The machine flew over Märkisch Buchholz at 14:38 . According to the radiotelegraphy report, the aircraft flew in the clouds at 2:48 p.m. at an altitude of 2,200 meters and reported icing at 2:50 p.m. The last radiotelegraphic report was made at 2:58 p.m. via Ruhland . The aircraft was observed by eyewitnesses two to three minutes before the crash at an altitude of about 300 meters from Neukirch , flying towards the east. The aircraft is said to have swayed several times around its longitudinal axis at inclines of up to 45 degrees and a multiple strong rear-up accompanied by repeated accelerations and disengagements was perceived. Shortly before the crash, the aircraft flew in a left turn and after a brief rear-end crashed at 3:02 p.m. over the right wing forward about 300 meters east of Brauna . The first witnesses at the scene of the accident observed a strong ice build-up on the tail units. Half an hour after the crash, ice was still 15 to 20 millimeters thick. All 29 occupants were killed in the crash. Among the passengers was the German radio pioneer Adolf Raskin .
The crash was the accident with the most fatalities of this type ever and in 1940.
Cause of accident
The accident investigation commission assumes that the cause of the crash was icing between the external compensation and the horizontal fin end cap and blocking of the altitude control in the depressed position, which together with the severe impairment of flight characteristics due to the thickness of the ice made it impossible to control the aircraft.
Web links
- Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans Werner Neulen: Deutsche Lufthansa: the crane in turbulence; 1939-1945 . 1st edition. Stedinger Verlag, Lemwerder 2003, ISBN 3-927697-34-6 , Appendix: Investigation report on the crash of the Ju 90 "Brandenburg", p. 174-181 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 14 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ E