Crash of a Lufthansa Boeing 720 in 1964

Crash of the "Bremen"
Boeing 720, formerly at Lufthansa as D-ABOM
Accident summary
Accident type	Structural failure
place	8 km northeast of Ansbach , between Petersdorf and Forst
date	July 15, 1964
Fatalities	3
Survivors	0
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 720-030B
operator	Lufthansa
Mark	D-ABOP
Surname	Bremen
Departure airport	Frankfurt am Main airport
Destination airport	Frankfurt am Main airport
crew	3
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When the crash of a Boeing 720 Lufthansa 1964 a Boeing crashed on July 15, 1964 720 of Lufthansa in a test flight over Germany near the Middle-Franconian town of Ansbach on, with all three crew members died.

plane

The Boeing 720, a sub-version of the Boeing 707 , with the aircraft registration D-ABOP was acquired by Lufthansa on January 4, 1962 and was given the name "Bremen" . The aircraft was with Pratt & Whitney -Triebwerken type JT3D-1 equipped.

Course of the accident

The Boeing 720 "Bremen" took off at 9:33 am from Frankfurt Airport on a test flight. At around 9:38 a.m., the pilots reported that they had reached flight level 130 and that the instrument flight had ended . They wanted to fly some test maneuvers between the Kitzingen navigation point and the Röthenbach radio beacon . The "Bremen" flew a full barrel roll , after which the pilots wanted to fly another barrel roll. However, during this maneuver, they lost control in the supine position. The "Bremen" was overloaded and broke up at an altitude of 1200 meters (approx. 4000 feet). The rubble fell to the ground near Petersdorf and caused a forest fire that was quickly extinguished. All three inmates - including Werner Baake - died.

causes

The reason for the crash was that the aircraft was overloaded by the barrel rollers; the pilots had flown the barrel rolls, although the Lufthansa guidelines forbade such maneuvers with the Boeing 707 and the aircraft was not approved by the manufacturer Boeing.

Web links

• THW report on the crash
  • Page 1 of a newspaper report (unknown publisher) ( Memento from April 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  • Page 2 of a newspaper report (unknown publisher) ( Memento from April 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Picture of the rubble of the "Bremen" ( Memento from October 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich H. Heimann: The aircraft of the German Lufthansa . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87943-672-X , p. 268.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Accident report B-720 D-ABOP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 1, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 13.4 ″  E