Crash of a Lufthansa Boeing 720 in 1961
| Crash of the "Düsseldorf" | |
|---|---|
 Boeing 720, formerly at Lufthansa as D-ABOR |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | unexplained |
| place | At Ebersheim |
| date | 4th December 1961 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 720-030B |
| operator | Lufthansa |
| Mark | D-ABOK |
| Surname | Dusseldorf |
| Departure airport | Frankfurt am Main airport |
| Destination airport | Cologne / Bonn Airport |
| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 3 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
When the crash of a Boeing 720 Lufthansa 1961 a Boeing crashed on December 4, 1961 720 of Lufthansa at a training flight in Rhineland-Palatinate from, all three crew members were killed.
plane
The Boeing 720-030B , a version of the Boeing 707, with the aircraft registration D-ABOK was delivered to Lufthansa on April 28, 1961 and was given the name "Düsseldorf". The aircraft was with Pratt & Whitney -Triebwerken type JT3D-1 equipped.
It was the world's first total loss and the first fatal incident with a machine of this type, the delivery of which had only started in February of the same year.
Course of the accident
The Boeing 720 "Düsseldorf" took off from runway 25L at Frankfurt Airport at 12:22 pm on a training flight with destination Cologne . At around 12:25 p.m., the pilots reported crossing the Nierstein radio beacon at an altitude of 6,000 feet. The pilots were then asked to turn right in the direction of the Rüdesheim navigation point and report back at an altitude of 9,000 feet. The pilots confirmed this. Shortly afterwards, the “Düsseldorf” turned upside down and bored into a field near Ebersheim with a bank angle of 55 ° . All three occupants died, including Captain Sussmann, who had prevented the crash of another Boeing 707 just two months earlier, in which the cargo and thus the machine's center of gravity had suddenly shifted during the flight.
causes
The reason for the sudden nosedive could never be completely clarified. It is suspected that the control surfaces were blocked due to a faulty securing of the hydraulic control, for which Boeing warned a year after the accident that an improvement should be made.
Web links
- Rudolf Büllesbach: Local history: The mystery of the crash of the "Düsseldorf". (PDF, 167 kB) Retrieved on April 7, 2018 (Ebersheimer Schaufenster).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Air accident 04 DEC 1961 with a Boeing 720-030B D-ABOK. In: Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved September 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Henning Berg: When the Boeing 720 bored into the field. In: Rhein-Zeitung . May 16, 2011 ( rhein-zeitung.de ), accessed on September 25, 2014.
- ↑ HM: The bolt and the mass death . In: The time . No. 25 . Hamburg June 22, 1962 ( zeit.de [accessed September 25, 2014]).