British Eagle Flight 802 (1968)
| British Eagle Flight 802 (1968) | |
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.jpg) An identical machine of the company |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | structural failure |
| place | Langenbruck , Germany |
| date | August 9, 1968 |
| Fatalities | 48 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Vickers Viscount Model 700 |
| operator | British Eagle International Airlines |
| Mark | G-ATFN |
| Surname | City of Truro |
| Departure airport | London Heathrow |
| Destination airport | Innsbruck airport |
| Passengers | 44 |
| crew | 4th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On August 9, 1968, a Vickers Viscount crashed on British Eagle flight 802 ( flight number : EG802) . The plane crashed at Langenbruck (today a district of Reichertshofen ), about 20 km south of Ingolstadt on the federal highway 9 . All 48 occupants were killed in the accident.
the accident
The Vickers Viscount 700 of British Eagle International Airlines was originally supposed to take off at 09:30 GMT from London-Heathrow for a scheduled flight to Innsbruck-Kranebitten . The start was delayed due to a storm, so that the plane did not take off until 10:37 GMT. At 12:52 GMT (+1 local time in Germany), flight EG802 was greeted by air traffic control in Munich-Riem . The crew's response was the last contact with the aircraft. At 13:03 GMT, the aircraft flew over the non-directional radio beacon (NDB) Mike. The permission given shortly thereafter to change flight levels was not answered. Eventually, the aircraft entered an area not covered by radar and disappeared from the radar screens, ten to twenty kilometers south of NDB Mike. At 13:29 GMT, the aircraft hit the A9 13 kilometers north of NDB Mike at 472.2 kilometers. All inmates were killed.
The victims were buried in a communal grave in the Langenbruck cemetery.
root cause
At that time, the area was cloudy and visibility was poor. In the 5 months before the accident, the G-ATFN had twelve on-board power supply failures, the last only a few days earlier. Presumably, after a failure of the on-board electrical system, the crew lost their orientation and brought the aircraft into a flight condition that overloaded it. As a result, the ends of the wings broke off (each about 5.5 m long) and parts of the elevator came loose. The wings were found around 1900 m, the parts of the elevator a few hundred meters from the site of the accident.
Web links
- Flight International, January 16, 1969 , Flight Global Archive, pages of the journals can be viewed as PDF
- Information on the accident machine, BritishEagle.net
- sueddeutsche.de: When horror fell from the sky
- Historic disaster: The plane crash in Langenbruck - Schwaben & Altbayern - BR on YouTube , accessed on February 12, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Flugzeugkatastrophen p. 14, Gondrom Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-8112-1296-6
- ↑ The victim of plane crash thought (newspaper report on the 40th anniversary of the disaster). In: Donaukurier . August 10, 2008, accessed on December 20, 2014 (subscription required).
- ↑ Accident report Viscount 700 G-ATFN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 10, 2019.