Condor flight 3782
| Condor flight 3782 | |
|---|---|
 The crashed D-ABHD machine , June 1982 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place | Seferihisar , 18 km west of Izmir |
| date | 2nd January 1988 |
| Fatalities | 16 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-230 |
| operator | Condor flight service |
| Mark | D-ABHD |
| Departure airport |
 Stuttgart-Echterdingen Airport
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| Destination airport |
 Izmir-Adnan Menderes Airport
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| Passengers | 11 |
| crew | 5 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
Condor flight 3782 was a charter flight of the German airline Condor from Stuttgart to Izmir , which crashed on January 2, 1988 while approaching Izmir. All 16 occupants of the Boeing 737-200 died in the accident.
plane
The Boeing 737-230 with the serial number 22635/774 and the aircraft registration D-ABHD had its first flight on June 15, 1981. At the time of the accident, the machine had completed 19,334 flight hours.
Flight history
The plane was chartered from a Turkish tour operator specializing in ethnic traffic . The pilots were the 48-year-old flight captain and former starfighter pilot Wolfgang Hechler and the 33-year-old copilot Helmut Zöller; he was a pilot flying . After two hours of flight time, the crew began the descent at around 7 p.m. to the Izmir-Adnan Menderes Airport, which was completed in 1987, and planned an instrument approach on the instrument landing system (ILS) for runway 35. The position is usually determined by directional (VOR) or non-directional radio beacons ( NDB) verified to ensure that the aircraft is not departing a sidelobe from the ILS; This was not done on flight 3782. The machine followed a sidelobe that was more than 35 degrees outside the actual approach course and finally collided with a hill about 10 nautical miles southwest of Izmir Airport at around 19:18 .
15 people died in the impact. A flight attendant probably initially survived, but died about three hours later when the rescue workers arrived.
| nationality | Passengers | crew | All in all |
|---|---|---|---|
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Turkey
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11 | - | 11 |
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Germany
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- | 5 | 5 |
| Total: | 11 | 5 | 16 |
Causes of accidents
Captain Hechler kept talking to his co-pilot Zöller and criticizing him during the approach. During the quarrel, they did not notice that they had lost their orientation and hit a mountain.
“The accident occurred due to the wrong use of navigation aids. The cause is attributed mainly to the lack of adherence to company procedures especially in respect of crew coordination during approach and basic instrument flying procedures. "
“The accident occurred because of the incorrect use of navigation aids. The cause is primarily due to the lack of compliance with operating procedures, especially with regard to the coordination of the crew during the approach and generally during instrument flight procedures. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e The forgotten crash of Condor 3782. In: Austrian Wings. January 14, 2013, accessed May 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Missing funnel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , January 11, 1988, ISSN 0038-7452 , p. 158 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 15, 2015]).
- ↑ Marco Evers, Carsten Holm, Martin U. Müller , Conny Neumann, Gerald Traufetter: Farewell to the hero. In: Der Spiegel. April 4, 2015, accessed May 22, 2017 .