Aviation accident on the Leopoldsberg in 1955
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 51.4 ″ N , 16 ° 19 ′ 51.6 ″ E
| Aviation accident on the Leopoldsberg in 1955 | |
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 The JAT Convair 340 YU-ADC |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | CFIT |
| place |
Leopoldsberg , Vienna, Austria
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| date | October 10, 1955 |
| Fatalities | 7th |
| Survivors | 22nd |
| Injured | 17th |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Convair CV-340-58 |
| operator |
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| Mark | YU-ADC |
| Passengers | 25th |
| crew | 4th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
In the 1955 flight accident on Leopoldsberg, a Convair CV-340-58 of the Yugoslav airline JAT collided with the site in thick fog while approaching Vienna Airport , killing 7 of the 29 occupants.
Flight history
The plane took off from Belgrade Airport at 1.30 p.m. and the route was to lead to London with a scheduled stop in Vienna . There were 25 passengers and four crew members on board. The pilot in charge on this flight was Romeo Adun, his co-pilot Rista Kostic.
The approach to Vienna Airport was planned on runway 12/30 with an approach over the south, along the Danube upstream, at 3:30 p.m. Due to the thick fog in Vienna, an extended holding pattern was flown. Due to the weather, only one more machine decided to land in Schwechat. The other machines flew to alternate airports, such as B. the airport Linz-Hörsching . The aircraft made radio contact with the tower in Vienna at 3:25 p.m. and requested permission to land. The tower issued this and gave instructions to remain at 3,500 feet (1,000 m) and, when reaching the landing course transmitter, turn onto the runway course and begin the descent. At 3:30 p.m., the pilots turned onto the runway course of 113 ° via a left turn and received landing permission after renewed radio contact. The landing gear and the landing flaps were then extended and the descent began.
At a height of almost 400 meters, the machine touched the treetops of the 425 m high Leopoldberg , whereupon the pilots recognized the error and tried to steer the machine upwards. Eyewitnesses reported the impact at 3:42 p.m. near the Josefinenhütte on Vienna's Höhenstrasse .
The plane broke into two parts, with the front part completely destroyed. The captain and six other occupants died in the impact, 17 others were injured. The copilot was thrown from the cockpit and survived the accident, seriously injured. Six people survived the accident unharmed and were able to leave the wreck independently.
Aircraft
The Convair 340-58 with the serial number 178 had been in use at JAT since 1954. JAT received two more CV-340s in the same year, one of which had an accident on December 22, 1956 while approaching Munich-Riem Airport near Grub and the other on February 4, 1961 in Titograd .
Cause of accident
The accident was investigated by the Federal Office for Civil Aviation in Vienna. The Aircraft Accident Commission determined that the accident was due to an arc drawn too far before landing, with the associated loss of orientation and the resulting misinterpretation of the flight altitude. The pilots flew eight minutes upstream along the Danube, getting north of the Kahlenberg and thus further north of their assumed position. When turning on the landing course transmitter in the extension of the runway, the landing approach was started and flown directly towards the mountainside. The survivors reported that shortly before the collision, the pilots pulled up the plane and thus probably prevented even greater loss of life.
The wreck was removed from the site of the accident three days later and, after the investigation by the authorities, was bought and disposed of by a scrap dealer in Vienna. On April 21, 1956, the Austrian Tourist Club erected a memorial stone flanked by two cypresses at the crash site .
Web links
Photograph of the accident in the Austrian National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident report CV-340 YU-ADC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2017.
- ↑ Airplane disaster on the Leopoldsberg . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 11, 1955, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).