Heinz-Dieter Kallbach

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Kallbach during a reading in the helicopter museum Bückeburg 2012
Ilyushin IL-62 "Lady Agnes" landed by Heinz-Dieter Kallbach
Stölln Rhinow Airfield, Ilyushin IL-62
Memorial stone , Am Gollenberg, in Gollenberg

Heinz-Dieter Kallbach (born September 11, 1940 in Essen ) is a former German traffic pilot . He has an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for landing a long-haul jet on a short grass runway.

Life

Heinz-Dieter Kallbach is the son of a working-class family from Essen who moved back to their homeland, Lusatia , in 1942 for fear of air raids . Kallbach grew up in Lauchhammer-Ost in southern Brandenburg . He began an apprenticeship as a lathe operator in 1955 and signed up for the National People's Army in 1957 . In Brandenburg-Briest and Dessau he learned to fly on the Antonow An-2 biplane and the twin-engine IL-14 .

Because his mother-in-law lived in the West, he was unable to pursue a career as a pilot in the GDR Air Force . Heinz-Dieter Kallbach switched to Deutsche Lufthansa (GDR) , later Interflug, as a pilot in 1961 .

At Interflug, Kallbach became an instructor for the Antonow An-24 and later became chief instructor for the four-engine Ilyushin Il-18 . Solidarity flights with aid for developing countries took him with the IL-18 across Africa and Asia . He also flew to airports that were not normally served by major airlines .

From 1978 he flew the four-engined Ilyushin Il-62 and in 1983 became the squadron leader of the IL-62 fleet. On October 23, 1989, Kallbach landed a long-haul jet of this type (license plate DDR-SEG) on the 850-meter-long grass runway at the Stölln landing site . The plane was a gift from Interflug to the city in which Otto Lilienthal crashed during one of his flight attempts and was subsequently killed. The landing was carefully planned and the aircraft prepared accordingly. A regularly operated IL-62 requires a runway of around 2,500 m in length for a normal landing on scheduled services with passengers and luggage.

During the time of the change , Heinz-Dieter Kallbach was retrained on the modern Airbus A310 . After the end of Interflug, he joined the charter airline Germania in November 1990 and flew holidaymakers with a Boeing 737 . In addition to his job as a commercial pilot, he also piloted a Douglas DC-3 “ cherry bomber ” and the Cessna 206 seaplane in his free time .

On March 27, 2000, during a flight of a Boeing 737 of the Germania airline with Kallbach as flight captain, a man with suicidal intent broke into the cockpit and attempted to crash the plane by force. He injured the flight captain with blows and kicks and kicked the controls and disabled the autopilot . After a six-minute battle, the assassin was overwhelmed. Heinz-Dieter Kallbach was covered with hematomas , his jaw and several ribs were bruised. He then safely steered the Boeing 737 to the destination airport, and Germania celebrated him as a hero.

In 2005 he worked on behalf of Germania for the low-cost airline Hapag-Lloyd Express . After Heinz-Dieter Kallbach addressed the high workload of pilots at low-cost airlines in an interview with Focus in 2005 , Germania suspended him a few days before his scheduled retirement.

On September 28, 2001 Heinz-Dieter Kallbach had already transported a DC-3 - Raisin Bomber from Coventry to Berlin, with which in the following years - in memory of the Airlift 1948/49 - sightseeing flights were carried out with passengers. On June 19, 2010, the plane had an accident with another pilot at the wheel near Schönefeld Airport, injuring some passengers and seriously damaging the aircraft. A short time later, an association was founded with the aim of enabling the machine to be rebuilt. Heinz-Dieter Kallbach became honorary chairman of this association. In the meantime, the reconstruction of the raisin bomber has been given up due to incalculable cost increases due to stricter legal requirements.

Heinz-Dieter Kallbach is still receiving his private flight license, so that he can keep flying. He also trains student pilots in the simulator .

literature

  • Günter Heribert Münzberg: Mayday over Saragossa. Heinz-Dieter Kallbach - Germany's most legendary flight captain. Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939611-21-9

Web links

Commons : Heinz-Dieter Kallbach  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Assassins, field slopes, fires , accessed on September 20, 2019
  2. ↑ A Lady Lands , accessed September 20, 2019
  3. ↑ Ilyushin Il-62 "Lady Agnes", on the glider airfield at Gollenberg near Stölln ( 52 ° 44 ′ 43 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 2 ″  E )
  4. ↑ Interview with Heinz-Dieter Kallbach , accessed on September 20, 2019
  5. ↑ Not a recommendable job , accessed September 20, 2019
  6. ↑ Berliner Raisinenbomber never flies again , accessed on September 20, 2019
  7. ↑ Interview with Heinz-Dieter Kallbach , accessed on September 20, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kallbach, Heinz-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen , Germany