Plane crash on the Altkönig (1971)
| Plane crash on the Altkönig (1971) | |
|---|---|
 Beechcraft King Air 90 |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | unknown |
| place | Altkönig in the Taunus |
| date | 22nd January 1971 |
| Fatalities | 6th |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Beechcraft King Air 90 |
| operator | Heitkamp |
| Mark | D-ILTU |
| Departure airport | Frankfurt am Main airport |
| Destination airport | Fritzlar Army Airfield |
| Passengers | 4th |
| crew | 2 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
In the plane crash on the Altkönig on January 22, 1971 , all six occupants on board a Beechcraft King Air 90 were killed. The Altkönig mountain ( 798.2 m above sea level ) is the third highest mountain in the Taunus and lies in its Hessian part.
Inmates
The aircraft belonged to the Wanne-Eickeler construction company Heitkamp . On board were the mayor of Wattenscheid , Erwin Topp , the city director Georg Schmitz , the municipal building officer Kurt Wille, the authorized signatory of the construction company Josef Peckelsen and the two pilots of the machine, Alfred Krummlauf and Rolf Brennholt. The delegation had visited a construction site for the light rail in Frankfurt am Main . At the destination, a stay in the construction company's hunting lodge was planned. Originally it was assumed that there were seven fatalities. However, a civil engineer from the Heitkamp company had taken a scheduled flight to Düsseldorf to attend an official appointment there. None of the inmates survived the crash.
the accident
At 3:12 p.m., the aircraft with the aircraft registration D-ILTU took off from Frankfurt am Main Airport . It was on the flight to the Fritzlar airfield in northern Hesse. But already in the Kronberg city forest the machine crashed in very poor visibility around 820 m south-southeast and around 150 meters below the Altkönig summit at around 650 m . Walkers reported that they heard the noise of a low-flying plane and a little later an impact bang. The wreckage of the aircraft was scattered over a wide area.
After the accident
The population of Wattenscheid was deeply saddened by the sudden death of the top city. In front of the town hall there was a flag at half mast, the Wattenscheider Zeitung appeared with an extra sheet. The politicians were very respected for their actions in the mining crisis and the establishment of new companies. Thousands of people signed the books of condolence. The memorial service in the town hall and the funeral took place among a large proportion of the population on January 29, 1971.
There is a memorial stone at the crash site on the 300-meter path east of the Döngesberg spur . Commemorative events with Wattenscheid delegates took place here in the following years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ City tip died in a plane crash , January 21, 2011, accessed on March 1, 2017, on derwesten.de
- ↑ Mayor killed in plane crash? In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Axel Springer, January 23, 1971, ISSN 0949-4618 , p. 1 .
- ^ Air-Britain: West Germany, Switzerland & Austrian Civil Registers 1970, p. 49
- ↑ Six people smashed to pieces by plane at the Altkönig ; in: FAZ from January 25, 1971, p. 23
- ↑ Crash on the Altkönig? ; in: FAZ of January 23, 1971, p. 37
- ↑ Air-Britain Digest, Volume 23, No. 8, August 1971, p. 199
- ↑ Airliners flew safely - bad weather is the most common cause of accidents in small aircraft . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Axel Springer, April 27, 1971, ISSN 0949-4618 , p. 19 .
- ↑ a b Altitude (crash site) and distance measurement (Altköniggipfel - memorial stone at the crash site) in map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ WAZ Wattenscheid, January 20, 1996
- ^ Plane crash memorial stone January 22 , 1971 , accessed on February 21, 2017, on street catalog
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 5 ″ E