Plane accident near Koenigsbrück

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Plane accident near Koenigsbrück
Federal archive DH 2 Bild-F-04180, Berlin-Schönefeld, airport building, Il14.jpg

A structurally identical Interflug aircraft
Accident summary
Accident type emergency landing
place near Königsbrück
date 7th December 1963
Fatalities 0
Survivors 33
Injured 2
Aircraft
Aircraft type Ilyushin Il-14
operator Interflug
Mark DM-SBL
Departure airport Berlin Schönefeld Airport
Destination airport Constanta Airport
Passengers 28
crew 5
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In the Königsbrück aircraft accident , an Ilyushin Il-14 operated by the GDR airline Interflug performed a belly landing north of Dresden at the end of 1963 . All occupants survived the accident.

plane

The IL-14 did not come from the aircraft factory in Dresden , but was built in Tashkent and consequently supplied by the Soviet Union. It was put into service by Deutsche Lufthansa in the GDR on December 10, 1957 and taken over by Interflug after its dissolution.

course

The charter flight was intended to take vacationers to a cruise ship to the Black Sea in Constanta in Romania on December 7, 1963, shortly before the sixth anniversary of the aircraft's commissioning . The plane took off from Berlin-Schönefeld at 13:57. After 14 minutes, the entire power supply suddenly went out at an altitude of 2,400 meters. The crew decided to make an emergency landing in Dresden-Klotzsche .

However, the crew could not find Dresden Airport without on-board power supply and without radio contact, in extremely unfavorable weather conditions and a lack of visibility. Shortly before dark, at 3:50 p.m., the pilots therefore carried out an emergency landing with the landing gear retracted on the Königsbrück military training area in the Königsbrücker Heide west of Schwepnitz . All 33 occupants survived, including five crew members, and only two passengers suffered minor bruises. Soviet soldiers who happened to be practicing nearby helped with the recovery of passengers and luggage. The passengers continued their journey the next day with a replacement machine.

Cause of accident

The investigation into the accident showed that the cable to the main current winding of the generator on the left had broken, whereupon it failed and no longer supplied electricity. As a result, the right generator was overloaded because, in addition to the general devices, the heaters were still switched on due to the icing in the clouds. This triggered a fuse in the landing gear shaft, which was inaccessible during the flight, and interrupted the power supply to the on-board network. The capacity of the on-board batteries was used up in a few minutes. This meant that all electrically operated devices could no longer be used. Due to the design, the crew could only determine the missing on-board voltage after the failure of the devices.

consequences

The aircraft, which was initially not considered to be too badly damaged, had to be dismantled on site because of the poor transport options. It was brought to the Dresden aircraft factory and scrapped there.

Others

Just a few kilometers south of the scene of the accident, less than five years earlier, on March 4, 1959, also on the approach to Dresden-Klotzsche Airport, a 152 crashed, claiming four lives and a turning point in the history of aircraft construction Represents GDR.

The radio operator of the plane that crashed near Königsbrück, Achim Filenius, was killed in 1972 while navigating an Il-62 in the Königs Wusterhausen aircraft disaster .

literature

  • Detlef Billg / Manfred Meyer: Airplanes of the GDR . Motorbuch-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-613-02198-6 , pp. 132-134 and 187.

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