Elisabeth Friske

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Elisabeth Friske (* 1939 ; † May 31, 1987 at Lübeck-Blankensee Airport ) was a German pilot who survived the emergency landing of Paninternational flight 112 in 1971 and was killed in another crash in 1987.

Life

The Brown welding Gerin Friske is considered the first German pilot of passenger jets at all. Her husband Gerd Friske later described the piloting profession as her lifelong dream. In 1966 she and Liselotte Roland won the "Golden Rose von Eddesse", a competition for female airplane pilots.

She was used as a copilot on Paninternational flight 112 (flight number DR112), which had to make an emergency landing on federal motorway 7 near Hasloh on September 6, 1971, shortly after taking off from Hamburg Airport . Of the 121 inmates, 22 were killed. 45 people were injured, some seriously, including Friske. The cause turned out to be kerosene in the additional tanks for the water injection system. The emergency landing without engines is considered a flying masterpiece.

Friske continued to work as a pilot even after the crash. She died on May 31, 1987 at Lübeck-Blankensee Airport when the Cessna Citation charter plane, flown by pilot Michael Heise and her as co-pilot, crashed on landing. The machine had the then Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein Uwe Barschel (CDU) on board. The politician was the only one who survived the crash.

literature

  • Helmut Kreuzer: Crash - The fatal accidents with passenger aircraft in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (since 1950) . 1st edition. Air Gallery Edition, Erding, 2002, ISBN 3-9805934-3-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contemporary witnesses: The fight for her lifelong dream ended in tragedy. Braunschweiger Zeitung from July 16, 2009.
  2. ↑ VDP-Nachrichten 2014 (PDF; 7.7 MB), p. 46.
  3. ^ Accident report BAC 1-11-500 D-ALAR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ Death in the Cornfield. , Der Spiegel, No. 24, 1987.
personal data
SURNAME Friske, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1987
Place of death Lübeck-Blankensee Airport