List of aircraft accidents up to 1949
This is a partial list of aircraft accidents that occurred in the years up to 1949 while operating commercial aircraft . For other periods of time see lists of aircraft accidents .
For military aircraft accidents see list of aircraft accidents (military aviation) up to 1980 .
For aircraft accidents involving general aviation aircraft, see List of aircraft accidents (General Aviation) .
Entries with their own article in Wikipedia are marked with (A) .
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Accidents until 1930
- Crashes of balloons and airships are highlighted in light blue.
date | place | Airline / flight number | Aircraft type | Victim | description |
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June 15, 1785 | Wimereux , France | Hot air gas hybrid balloon | 2 | Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain crashed their Rozière balloon on the French Channel coast, becoming the first casualties in aviation history. | |
July 7, 1819 | Paris , France | 1 | Sophie Blanchard's balloon was set on fire by a firecracker over Paris, and the balloonist fell to her death; she was the first female fatality in an air accident. | ||
April 15, 1875 | Ciron , Indre department , France | Zénith balloon | 2 | During a balloon flight, Joseph Crocé-Spinelli and Théodore Sivel died at an altitude of about 8,000 meters due to the lack of oxygen. Gaston Tissandier survived. | |
August 9, 1896 | Stölln ( Brandenburg ), Germany | Normal sailing apparatus | 1 | Otto Lilienthal fell in the Rhinower Mountains and died the next day in Berlin . | |
June 12, 1897 | Tempelhof ( Berlin ), Germany | Airship Germany | 2 | Friedrich Hermann Wölfert and his mechanic Knabe crashed in a fire during a demonstration. | |
February 1, 1902 | Zwijndrecht , Belgium | Balloon Berson | 1 | At the end of a scientific balloon flight, the inventor of the dragon balloon, Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld , had a fatal accident in a storm landing on frozen ground, while his passenger Franz Linke suffered only minor injuries. | |
17th September 1908 | Fort Myer , Virginia , USA | Flyer A | 1 | The first person killed in an aircraft accident in the USA. Orville Wright and Thomas E. Selfridge lost control of their plane. Selfridge died, Wright was injured. | |
July 12, 1910 | Bournemouth , England , UK | Flyer I. | 1 | The first British dead in an aircraft accident. The tail of the aircraft built by the Wright brothers broke off and Charles Rolls , the co-founder of Rolls-Royce, fell from a height of about 15 m and died at the scene of the accident. | |
July 13, 1910 | Pattscheid , Germany | Airship Erbslöh | 5 | The airship crashed after the hull burst and leaked hydrogen ignited by a spark from the engine. | |
July 2, 1912 | Atlantic City , USA | Airship | 5 | The first American airship exploded over the city. | |
April 20, 1913 | Kaufunger Wald near Kassel , Germany | balloon | 1 | The balloon crashed in a thunderstorm. | |
July 21, 1919 | Chicago , USA | Wingfoot Air Express airship | 13 | The airship caught fire in the air and crashed into the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank building . 10 people died on the ground, as well as two passengers and a crew member. Two other crew members saved themselves with parachutes. | |
April 7, 1922 | Grandvilliers , France | De Havilland DH-18 and Farman F-16 | 7th | The two planes collided in poor visibility. This accident is considered to be the first airborne collision between two aircraft. | |
October 30, 1927 | New Brunswick , USA | Colonial Air Transport | Fairchild FC-2 | 4th | Crashed on startup. |
May 25, 1928 | Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard | Airship Italia | 7th | On the way back from the North Pole, the airship fell on the pack ice in bad weather. The driver's gondola was separated from the hull by the impact, killing one person. Six members of the expedition were carried away by the storm in the airship and have been missing since then. | |
August 24, 1929 | Elm (Schlüchtern) , Germany | Luft Hansa | Fokker-Grulich F.II | 4th | Crash of the D-757 'Spree' of Luft Hansa on the scheduled flight from Frankfurt am Main to Berlin-Tempelhof . Four dead. |
November 6, 1929 | Surrey , UK | Luft Hansa | Junkers G24 | 6th | The Junkers exploded over Surrey and crashed. |
5th October 1930 | Beauvais , France | Rigid airship R101 | 48 | During an attempted emergency landing, the British rigid airship caught fire. The accident claimed 48 lives and is still the most loss-making in civil aviation to date (as of 2015). 6 survivors. |
Accidents from 1931 to 1949
- Crashes of balloons and airships are highlighted in light blue.
date | place | Airline / flight number | Aircraft type | Victim | description |
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March 31, 1931 | Chase County , USA | Transcontinental and Western Air | Fokker F.10 | 8th | (A) A Fokker F.10 crashedinto a wheat fieldon Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 5 after a wing was torn off. All inmates, including the football coach Knute Rockne , died. The crash came into the focus of interest due to Rockne's death and led to far-reaching changes in aircraft construction (wooden components were replaced by metal) and accident investigation (involvement of government agencies, publication). |
October 10, 1933 | Chesterton, Indiana , USA | United Air Lines | Boeing 247 | 7th | (A) Theaircraft that startedin Cleveland lost its stern due to a bomb explosion in the rear of the cabin. All inmates were killed in the crash. The perpetrator (s) could not be identified (see article United Air Lines flight 23 ). |
July 27, 1934 | Wurmlingen (Tuttlingen district) , Germany | Swissair | Curtiss AT-32C | 12 | A passenger plane that took off at Zurich Airport crashed near Wurmlingen (Tuttlingen district) . Among the twelve dead was the first stewardess in Europe, Nelly Diener . See also: Plane crash on July 27, 1934 near Tuttlingen |
December 20, 1934 | Rutbah Wells , Iraq | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines | Douglas DC-2 | 7th | (A) Theaircraftthat took off from Cairo-Almaza Airport was on a flight from Amsterdam to Batavia (Dutch East Indies) (now Jakarta). The crash happened during a thunderstorm. There were no survivors. The cause of the accident remained unclear (see also the KLM Douglas DC-2 “Uiver” plane crash ) . |
May 18, 1935 | Moscow , Soviet Union | Polikarpov I-5 and Tupolev ANT-20 | 49 | A Polikarpov I-5 collided with the ANT-20 airliner during a formation flight. Both planes crashed. | |
June 16, 1936 | Mount Lihesten, near Hyllestad, Norway | Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m | 7th | A Junkers Ju 52 / 3m of the DNL ( aircraft registration LN-DAE ) was flown into Berg Lihesten, near Hyllestad. The machine was on its way from the then sea airport Bergen-Sandviken to Tromsø . All seven people on board (four crew members, three passengers) were killed. This was the first fatal aviation accident in Norway. |
November 17, 1936 | Moritzberg , near Nuremberg , Germany | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m | 3 | An unscheduled stopover was to be made in Nuremberg on the flight from Berlin to Munich. Due to the fog, the approach to the then Marienberg airport was difficult. When flying around Moritzberg for the second time, the left wing touched the treetops around 3 p.m. and the aircraft with the registration D-ASUI crashed on the northern slope of Moritzberg. Of the 18 people on board, 15 survived. | |
January 12, 1937 | San Gabriel Mountains , USA | Western Air Express | Boeing 247 | 5 | (A) On the approach to Burbank (California) the aircraft deviated from the planned flight path in poor visibility and hit a mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains. Among the 13 inmates were documentary filmmaker Osa Johnson and her husband Martin Johnson. In addition to Martin Johnson, four other people were killed (see article Western Air Express Flight 7 ). |
May 6, 1937 | Lakehurst , USA | LZ 129 Hindenburg | 36 | The zeppelin caught fire on May 6, 1937 after crossing the Atlantic during a landing maneuver over the airfield and was destroyed. The accident is the fifth most serious in the history of airship travel to date (as of 2009). There were 62 survivors among the passengers and crew members. | |
November 12, 1937 | near Schriesheim , Germany | Lufthansa | Heinkel He 111 | 10 | (A) On a scheduled flight from Berlin to Mannheim, the Lufthansa AXAV "Cologne" plane crashed into the fog near Schriesheim am Weißen Stein (10 km east of Mannheim). Two of the twelve people on board survived the accident (see article Crash of the He-111 "Cologne" 1937 ). |
November 16, 1937 | Steene , Ostend , Belgium | Sabena | Junkers Ju 52 / 3m | 11 | (A) During the unscheduled stopover of a flight from Frankfurt am Main to London, the machine collided with a factory chimney due to bad weather and shattered. All inmates were killed, including almost the entire family of the former Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse-Darmstadt and the glider pioneer Arthur Martens (see flight accident in Ostend ). |
1940
- On March 16, 1940, a Savoia-Marchetti SM.73 of the Italian Avio Linee Italiane ( aircraft registration I-SUTO ) was flown into the Stromboli volcano ( Italy ) in adverse weather . The machine was on a flight from Tripoli via Catania to Rome. In this CFIT, controlled flight into terrain , all 14 occupants were killed, 5 crew members and 9 passengers.
- (A) On August 31, 1940, a Douglas DC-3A operated by Pennsylvania Central Airlines (NC21789) crashed into a field of alfalfanear Lovettsville , Virginia , USA. Of the 25 people on board, including US Senator Ernest Lundeen , none survived. The assumed cause was a lightning strike when the machine flew into a thunderstorm (see Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19 ) .
- On November 8, 1940 crashed a Junkers Ju 90 of Lufthansa (D-AVMF) on the way from Berlin to Budapest in Brauna , Sachsen off. The 6 crew members and all 23 passengers were killed. The cause of the crash was icing of the tail unit. It was the worst accident for Lufthansa at the time.
- On November 26, 1940, the Fiat G.18 I-ELIO of the Italian Avio Linee Italiane / Regia Aeronautica made a total break on landing at Milan Linate Airport. All inmates survived.
1941
- On January 15, 1941, the flight crew of a Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 of the Italian line Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane (LATI) ( I-BAYR ) had to make an emergency landing on the flight from Natal-Parnamirim airport to Sal , Cape Verde . After the middle engine failed, the altitude could no longer be maintained. All eight crew members and two passengers were killed.
1942
- (A) On January 16, 1942, a Douglas DC-3 of Transcontinental and Western Air ( NC1946 ) wasflown 53 km southwest ofthe airport into the almost 2,400 m high Potosi Mountainafter taking off from Las Vegas Airport . The accident happened due to a navigation error and the shutdown of almost all radio beacons for camouflage reasons. All 22 people on board were killed, including film actress Carole Lombard (see Transcontinental and Western Air flight 3 ).
- On November 16, 1942 the Fiat G.18 I-ETNA of Avio Linee Italiane SA (ALI) / Regia Aeronautica burned after a break near Milan. In fog, the fuel ran out and the plane made an emergency landing. The entire crew, the only occupants, survived.
1943
- On January 29, 1943, the Fiat G.18 V I-EURE of the Avio Linee Italiane / Regia Aeronautica was flown into the sea on a flight from Belgrade to Venice at an altitude of 30 m in fog fields 500 meters in front of the Venice airport, whereby the four-man Crew and one other person perished.
- On June 1, 1943 a Douglas DC-3 of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) ( G-AGBB ) was shot down by planes of the German Air Force on the flight from Lisbon to Whitchurch Airport (near Bristol , England) over the Bay of Biscay , about 350 km north of La Coruna. All 17 inmates were killed. British film actor Leslie Howard was among the dead . Various theories suggest that the Germans suspected British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on board the plane or that Howard and other inmates were spying for the United Kingdom.
1944
- On January 15, 1944, a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m of Lufthansa (D-ADQW) coming from Thessaloniki flew into a hill while approaching Belgrade-Zemun Airport . The weather was determined by low clouds at a height of about 200 m. All three crew members and 2 passengers were killed.
- On April 30, 1944, the Regia Aeronautica Fiat G.18 V transport aircraft with the aircraft registration I-ELCE was destroyed in a bomb attack on the Milan-Bresso airfield .
1945
- August 11 - A Douglas DC-2-243 of Mexicana ( air vehicle registration XA-DOT ) crashed in bad weather at the volcano Iztaccihuatl . All 16 people on board were killed, 4 crew members and 12 passengers (according to another source 4 + 11, a total of 15).
- September 7 - In a Douglas DC-3-201G of Eastern Air Lines (NC33631) was a fire in the rear cargo hold during the flight. Even before an emergency landing could take place, there was a loss of control and a crash 10 km away from Florence (South Carolina) . All 22 people on board were killed.
- October 31 - The propeller of the left engine No. 3 of a French large flying boat Latécoère 631 of Air France (F-BANT) came loose in the Laguna de Rocha (Uruguay) and slit the fuselage to a length of almost 3 m. Two passengers were killed in the process. Since a small fire broke out, an emergency landing was carried out in the lagoon.
- November 17 - A Douglas DC-3 / C-47A-5-DK of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) (KG310) grazed the ground with a wing in poor visibility when approaching Vienna International Airport and fell shortly before the Runway. All inmates survived.
1946
- January 30th - The Boeing B-17G of the Danish company Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) ( aircraft registration OY-DFE , formerly SE-BAR ) came off the runway when landing at Copenhagen Airport , sped into the apron and crashed into the parked one Douglas DC-3 (KG427) of the Royal Air Force . Both machines were destroyed; there was no personal injury.
- May 22nd - The left engine of a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m2e owned by the Norwegian Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) (LN-LAB) failed shortly after taking off from Oslo-Fornebu Airport . When trying a reverse curve it came to the stall , the machine grazed treetops and crashed into a house on the southern edge of the airport. All 12 occupants except one passenger were killed.
- July 17 - A Curtiss C-46 D of the Ecuadorian ANDESA (HC SCA) flew in through launch attempt after a failed approach to the airport Cuenca ( Ecuador ) 1.6 km past the airport into a hill. The machine from Guayaquil was flown by two hired US pilots. All 30 occupants, 3 crew members and 27 passengers, were killed.
- August 7th - A Douglas DC-3 of British European Airways (G-AHCS) collided with the muck mountain, 19 km north of the airport, while approaching Oslo-Gardermoen Airport , Norway. 13 of the 16 occupants survived the collision with trees; 3 crew members were killed.
- Sept. 3 - A Douglas DC-3A of Air France (F-Baob) crashed after taking off from Copenhagen Airport about 40 km southwest thereof in Køge from. All 22 occupants, 5 crew members and 17 passengers were killed. The cause is assumed to be a fuel leak that led to an engine fire.
- September 4 - A Douglas DC-3D of Air France (F-BAXD) crashed after taking off from Le Bourget airport a few kilometers away in a factory in Le Blanc-Mesnil . Of the 26 occupants, 4 crew members and 15 passengers as well as one person were killed on the ground.
- September 7th - Avro 685 York crashed in the Gambia in 1946 .
- October 26 - An Amiot AAC.1 of the French Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) ( F-BBYL ) was irreparably damaged at Marseille Airport , France. Nothing is known about personal injury.
- (A) November 5 - In bad weather conditions and chaotic conditions at the air traffic control at Moscow-Vnukowo Airport , Aeroflot passenger planes crashed three times within less than 50 minutes, after the planes each flew around the airport for more than 2 hours and them the Fuel ran out (see also flight accident of the Lissunow Li-2 CCCP-L4181 of Aeroflot , flight accident of the Douglas C-47 CCCP-L946 of Aeroflot and flight accident of the Lissunow Li-2 CCCP-L4207 of Aeroflot ) .
- November 6th - A Douglas DC-3 (PH-TBO) of the Dutch KLM Royal Dutch Airlines coming from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol fell into trees and broke while approaching Croydon Airport (England). The causes were an incorrect altimeter setting and inadequate flight preparation. All 15 passengers and 5 crew members survived this controlled flight into terrain .
- November 14 - A Douglas DC-3 (PH-TBW) of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines coming from Croydon Airport (England) crashed in difficult weather conditions during the third attempt to land at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and exploded. All 21 passengers and 5 crew members were killed.
- December 23 - An Avro York of the Argentine Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (FAMA) (LV-XIG ) coming from Natal (Brazil) collided with the 990 m while approaching the airport Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil high mountain Pico de Papagaio . All 21 inmates were killed.
- December 25 - A Curtiss C-46 Commando of the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) had an accident while approaching Shanghai Longhua Airport in heavy fog. Of the 36 occupants, 31 were killed (one crew member and three passengers). On that day, a total of three aircraft crashed in the Shanghai area with very poor visibility.
1947
- January 6th - An Amiot AAC.1 of the Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) ( aircraft registration F-BBYK ) coming from Marseille and used as a cargo plane got off course due to strongly changed wind conditions and flew at 1,800 meters into a snow-covered flank of the Mont mountain Ventoux , France. The three-man crew on the cargo flight to Lyon survived.
- January 26 - A Junkers Ju 52 / 3m of British European Airways (G-AHOK) crashed near the airport Glasgow Renfrew ( Scotland ). The machine was damaged beyond repair. Further circumstances, including about victims, are currently not known.
- (A) January 26th - A Douglas DC-3 operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (PH-TCR) arrived as a scheduled aircraft from Amsterdam at Kastrup Airport , Denmark. Shortly aftertakingoff for the onward flight to Stockholm , the plane reared up steeply and crashed. All 22 inmates were killed, including the Swedish Hereditary Prince Gustav Adolf . The cause was the failureto remove the elevator lock and check the controlsbefore take-off (see: Kastrup aircraft disaster ) .
- February 1 - A Douglas DC-3C of Air France (F-BAXQ) collided near Peninha with the Serra de Sintra range of hills 28 kilometers west of the destination airport Lisbon-Portela . The aircraft, which took off from Bordeaux-Mérignac airport , was approaching for landing when the accident occurred in bad weather and darkness. Of the 16 occupants, 15 were killed, all 5 crew members and 10 of the 11 passengers.
- February 17 - A Douglas DC-3 / C-47A from Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) (OY-AEB) was on a cargo flight from Aalborg to Copenhagen. Due to the visibility there, the crew avoided the Malmö-Bulltofta Airport, 25 km away , where landing was also not possible due to fog. On the way back to Copenhagen, due to the fuel situation, an emergency landing was carried out on the ice off the Swedish coast, about five kilometers abeam Malmö. All four crew members survived, the machine burned out.
- (A) April 22nd - During aflight in the Siberian tundra,a Douglas C-47 of Aeroflot (CCCP-L1204) suffered a failure of both engines and a total power failure. The machine had to be made an emergency landing in a deserted area on the Taimyr Peninsula. All 34 occupants survived the emergency landing, but the authorities could not initially find the aircraft. Nine men who went out for help after four days died. The remaining occupants were rescued alive 20 days after the emergency landing (see also Aeroflot's Douglas C-47 CCCP-L1204 accident ) .
- (A) May 29 - A Douglas DC-4 of United Air Lines (NC30046) raced on the New York-La Guardia during a delayed start demolition of the airport premises out and exploded. The rudder locks had not been released. Only 5 of the 48 occupants survived (see also United Air Lines flight 521 ) .
- May 30 - A Douglas DC-4 (C-54B) of the Eastern Air Lines (NC88814) fell on the regular flight from Newark (New Jersey) to Miami (Florida) from the cruising out in a forested area near Baltimore . All 53 people on board were killed. The cause could never be found.
- June 10 - An Avro Lancastrian C.4 from Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (FAMA) (LV-ACS) hit a mast while landing at Natal-Parnamirim Airport ( Brazil ) and caught fire. Of the 18 occupants, 6 were killed, 4 crew members and 2 passengers.
- June 19 - An engine failed on a Lockheed L-049 Constellation operated by Pan American World Airways (NC88845) . The overheating of the engines during the three-engine flight led to a fire in one of the engines and fire in the left wing. An emergency landing was then carried out near al-Mayadin in the Syrian desert . The machine was on the scheduled flight from Karachi to Istanbul . Of the 36 inmates, 14 were killed.
- July 16 - An Avro York C.1 of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) (G-AGNR) was flown into the ground on the fourth attempt to approach Shaibah Air Base ( Iraq ). Due to poor visibility at the actual destination, Basra Airport , the crew avoided the Shaibah Air Base. All 6 crew members were killed; the 12 passengers survived.
- July 24 - An Avro York I belonging to Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (FAMA), later called Aerolíneas Argentinas , (LV-XIH) collided with a truck while landing at Buenos Aires-Moron ( Argentina ) and exploded. 3 people were killed, 2 of the 6 crew members and a truck driver.
- July 25 - An Avro York C.1 of the British Skyways (G-AIUP) rolled over the end of the runway after a brake failure when landing at London Heathrow Airport and came to rest around 230 meters behind it in a small river. The cause was the breakage of a cable pull after excessive wear. All 24 occupants, 7 crew members and 17 passengers survived. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
- (A) August 2 - The crew of the Avro 691 Lancastrian G-AGWH of British South American Airways on the flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago de Chile reported their approach to Santiago de Chile, but the aircraft never arrived there. Apparently the crew had calculated their own position incorrectly and hadflownin a snow storm at an altitude of about 4600 m against the mountain top of Tupungato , Argentina . All six passengers and five crew members were killed. The aircraft remained missing until in 2000 some wreckage in the Andes took place (see crash of Star Dust ) .
- August 23 - An Avro Tudor 2 from the Ministry of Supply (G-AGSU) crashed near the Woodford factory airfield during a test flight immediately after take-off. All 6 occupants, 4 crew members and 2 passengers, were killed. Avro's chief designer Roy Chadwick was among the fatalities . The cause of the accident was a mistake in the assembly of the ailerons of the prototype.
- August 28th - A Short Sandringham 6 from Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) (LN-IAV) was flown into the flank of the 400-meter-high Kvammetind mountain at a height of just 290 meters. The machine was on its way from the then sea airport Harstad / Narvik to Bodø . All 35 people on board (8 crew members, 27 passengers) were killed. This was the worst accident involving a Sandringham and at the time the worst fatal aviation accident in Norway.
- October 16 - The flight crew of a Bristol 170 Freighter Mk. I of the Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) (registration F-BCJN ) reported on the flight from Marseille to Oran that they had had to switch off an engine. The plane crashed in the Mediterranean abeam of Cartagena , Spain . Of the 43 inmates, only the navigator and one passenger could be saved, the other 41 were killed.
- (A) Oct. 24 - A Douglas DC-6 of United Air Lines (NC37510) was on the flight from Los Angeles to Chicago , broke out when a fire. The plane hit 1.5 miles from the runway at Bryce Canyon Airport, Utah . All 52 occupants were killed (see United Air Lines Flight 608 ) .
- October 26th - A Douglas DC-4 of the Swedish AB Aerotransport (SE-BBG) flew into the western flank of Mount Hymettos near Athens. The machine was on a flight from Istanbul via Athens, Rome, Geneva and Copenhagen to Stockholm and was approaching the then Athens-Hassani airport. All 44 people on board were killed, 8 crew members and 36 passengers.
- November 18 - A Bristol 170 Mk XI operated by the Swedish charter airline Trafik-Turist-Transportflyg (SE-BNG) was flown into Santa Maria del Monte (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). On the way from Ethiopia to Sweden, the plane flew into the mountains on the section from Catania to Rome Ciampino Airport . Of the 25 inmates, 21 were killed.
- December 29 - A Vickers Viking 1B of Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) ( OY-DLI ) crash-landed . The machine came from Paris and flew in the Øresund during the approach to Copenhagen Airport . All 24 people on board survived.
1948
- January 25 - A Bristol 170 Mk.21E of the French Société Indochinoise de Transport Aériens (SITA) ( aircraft registration F-BCJA ) had an accident in the Mediterranean Sea near Cyprus on a transfer flight to Indochina . All 5 crew members were killed.
- January 26 - A SNCASE Languedoc of Air France (F-BCUC) crashed on a training flight about 8 km south of the airport Paris-Le Bourget in a furniture factory in the Paris suburb of Romainville . All 9 crew members were killed.
- January 27 - A Douglas C-47 (DC-3) of the Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (CS-TDB) had an accident on a training flight in bad weather south of Lisbon. All three people on board were killed.
- (A) January 30 - An Avro Tudor 4B of the British South American Airways ( G-AHNP ) with 31 people on board disappeared on a flight from Santa Maria on the Azores to Bermuda . The cause of the accident could not be clarified. It has been suggested that a loss of kerosene may have contributed to the disappearance (see also Disappearance of the Star Tiger ) .
- February 12 - Around 1:25 p.m. a Douglas DC-3 (C-53) airliner of the Danish airline Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) (OY-DCI) collided on the flight from Copenhagen via Frankfurt to Zurich near Ulrichstein , Hesse , with the Vogelsberg . During the descent to Frankfurt Airport in bad weather, the pilots reported an engine failure and the inability to maintain the altitude. They planned an emergency landing in a field near Ulrichstein. However, one wing tore off. Of the 21 inmates, 12 were killed.
- March 13 - A Douglas DC-3A of the Brazilian Cruzeiro do Sul (PP-CBX) collided with the Sierra Cristais ridge, 32 kilometers from the destination airport, while approaching São Paulo-Congonhas Airport ( Sao Paulo , Brazil). All 6 occupants, 4 crew members and 2 passengers, were killed.
- March 27 - A Vickers Viking 1B of Indian National Airways (VT-CEL) was flown on the way from Rome to London in poor visibility at an altitude of about 2400 m against the east side of Monte Cardo in France . It was a controlled flight into terrain . All 15 passengers and the 4 crew members were killed.
- April 5 - A Vickers Viking 1B of British European Airways (BEA) (G-AIVP) collided with a Soviet Yakovlev Jak-3 fighter aircraft during the approach and fell out of control about three kilometers from Berlin-Gatow airfield , Germany from. The Soviet pilot had illegal aerobatics there. All 15 people in the two machines were killed.
- April 11th - A Bristol 170 Mk.21 of Compagnie Air Transport (F-BENG) flew after take-off from Gibraltar airport for a cargo flight to Casablanca near Algeciras in the mountains. The pilots had not made the prescribed left turn immediately after take-off, but had flown straight ahead until they collided with the terrain at a height of around 800 meters. All three crew members were killed.
- May 12 (some sources May 13) - The Douglas DC-4 of Sabena OO-CBE came on a domestic flight from Léopoldville (Congo) to Libenge in a tornado and crashed into a wooded area. Of the 32 inmates, 31 were killed.
- May 13 - A Handley Page Halifax C.VIII of the French Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) (F-BCJX) rolled over the end of the runway at Bovingdon military airfield and finally got stuck in the airport fence. The three-man crew were unharmed. The aircraft registered with Société Aero Cargo was irreparably damaged.
- May 14 - A Vickers Viking 1B operated by Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (FAMA) (LV-AFL) suffered engine problems on a test flight. The pilots decided to make an emergency landing at Junin Airport ( Argentina ), 210 kilometers west of the destination airport Buenos Aires-Jorge Newbery . In poor visibility, however, there was a crash landing on farmland, which led to the collapse of the landing gear and the outbreak of fire. All 5 crew members survived the crash landing unharmed.
- May 20 - A Handley Page Halifax C.VIII of the French Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) (F-BCJT) crash-landed at Le Bourget Airport , France. The three-man crew survived without injuries. However, the aircraft registered with the Société Auxiliaire de Navigation Aérienne (SANA) was irreparably damaged.
- May 31 - On the scheduled flight to Paris with a stopover in Strasbourg , three of the four engines of a Sud-Est SE.161 Languedoc of the Polish Polskie line Lotnicze LOT (SP-LDA) failed . The pilot Viktor Pełka managed a field landing at Reims . The inmates were uninjured. The damage to the machine was classified as repairable and repaired in France. However, due to a lack of foreign exchange, LOT did not pick up the plane.
- June 8th - A Douglas C-47 (DC-3) of the Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (CS-TDF) had an accident on a training flight at Lisbon-Portela Airport after an engine was shut off during take-off. All five occupants survived the accident; the plane was a total write-off.
- (A) June 17 - The crew of a Douglas DC-6 of United Air Lines (NC37506) was due to a fire alarm the hold with carbon dioxide (CO 2 filled). During the subsequent descent with the nose tilted downwards, the CO 2 began to creep into the cockpitthrough a valve in the cargo hold, rendering the crew incapable of action. The machine got into an uncontrolled flight condition and crashedinto a swath of high voltage linesnear Mount Carmel (Pennsylvania) . There were no survivors among the 43 occupants (see also United Air Lines flight 624 ) .
- July 1 - A Fiat G.212CP of Avio Linee Italiane ( I-ELSA ) crashed near the Belgian town of Keerbergen on approach to the wrong airport. Four crew members and four of the seven passengers died.
- July 4 - A Douglas DC-6 operated by SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SE-BDA) , only two months old , collided with an Avro York C.1 of the Royal Air Force (MW248) in flight over Great Britain . Both machines were approaching Northolt Airport , collided a good 6 kilometers north of the airfield and crashed. All 32 people on board the DC-6 as well as the seven occupants of the York were killed.
- July 7 - A Douglas DC-3 / C-47-DL of Aigle Azur (F-BCYP) was in the district Djiring (now Di Linh) on the way from the airport Saigon / Tan Son Nhat to Airport Dalat / Lien Khuong flown into a mountain (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). All 16 occupants, 3 crew members and 13 passengers were killed.
- July 20 - The prototype of the heavy transport aircraft SNCAC NC.211 Cormoran crashed on its maiden flight about 20 minutes after take-off. It was to be transferred from Toussus-le-Noble airfield , where it was built, to the Villacoublay military airfield for flight testing . On approach, he fell from a height of 250 meters about one kilometer east of the Villacoublay destination airfield into a forest when the flaps were extended to the 40 ° position. The machine caught fire and burned out. All five crew members were killed.
- Aug. 1 - A six-engine flying boat of the type Latécoère 631 of Air France (F-BDRC) was on the flight from Fort-de-France , Martinique , according to Port Etienne (now Nouadhibou, Mauritania ). The flying boat disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean off Africa, about 1900 km west of Dakar , Senegal. Some burned wreckage was found later, but no trace of the 52 people on board.
- August 12 - A Canadair North Star operated by Trans-Canada Air Lines (CF-TEL) collided with an unlit pile of earth at the start of the runway while landing at Sydney Airport (Nova Scotia) , Canada. All 17 inmates survived; the plane was a total write-off.
- August 29 - A Martin 202 of Northwest Airlines (NC93044) broke seven kilometers northwest of Winona (Minnesota) , United States, when flying through a thunderstorm. None of the 37 inmates survived.
- September 3 - A Douglas DC-4 of Transportes Aéreos Portugueses (CS-TSB) had an accident on a training flight at Lisbon-Portela Airport. The landing was so hard that the plane was totaled. All five crew members survived the accident.
- October 2 - A Short Sandringham 5 of the SAS Scandinavian Airlines (LN-IAW) had an accident while landing at the then sea airport Trondheim-Hommelvik. When landing in heavy seas and cross winds, there was a loss of control. 19 of the 45 occupants were killed (see also flight accident involving the Bukken Bruse flying boat) .
- October 8 - When a Vickers Viking 1B of Indian National Airways (VT-CEJ) took off from Delhi-Palam Airport to Calcutta, the left tire burst. The machine broke out and left the runway, whereupon the landing gear collapsed. It came to a total loss. All 19 passengers and the 4 crew members survived.
- October 20 - A Lockheed L-049 Constellation operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (PH-TEN) was flown over high voltage lines five kilometers east of the airport under the command of its chief pilot Koene Dirk Parmentier during the approach to Prestwick Airport (Scotland). This killed all 40 people on board.
- October 13 - A Consolidated B-24 Liberator II of Scottish Airlines (G-AHZP) was approached too low at Liverpool-Speke Airport (Great Britain) and grazed street lights outside the airport. The aircraft was irreparably damaged in the subsequent crash landing. All 4 crew members of the cargo flight survived.
- December 1 - A Halifax C.VIII Handley Page Halifax C.VIII of Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) (F-BCJS) crashed while taking off from Lyon-Bron Airport , France, in thick fog about 1200 meters beyond the end of the runway at Beauregard in the Décines district. The machine was on a commercial flight to Casablanca-Anfa Airport . Of the eight occupants, three passengers were killed, the other two and the three-man crew injured. The aircraft registered with Société Aero Cargo was destroyed.
- December 6 - A Douglas DC-3 of the Avio Linee Italiane ( I-ETNA ) had an accident during take-off in the fog at Milan Linate Airport . The plane was supposed to fly to Brussels . All 7 inmates were killed.
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- (A) January 17 - An Avro Tudor 4B of the British South American Airways ( G-AGRE ) with 20 people on board disappeared on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston (Jamaica) . The cause of the accident could not be clarified. Since problems with the pressurized cabin were suspected, all Tudors were temporarily withdrawn from passenger service. Later it was speculated that a too far deflected elevator could cause the machine to dive uncontrollably (see also the disappearance of the Star Ariel ) .
- February 1 - An Avro York I of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) (G-AGJD) turned to the right during crosswind take-off at the Tripoli-Castel Benito military airfield ( Libya ); it was over-corrected and the machine crashed. All 15 occupants, 6 crew members and 9 passengers survived.
- February 8 - A Vickers Viking 1B of Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL) ( aircraft registration number OY-DLU ) crashed into the Oresund while approaching Copenhagen Airport near Barsebäck, Sweden . All 28 people on board were killed.
- February 24th - A Douglas DC-3 of TAM Peru (Transporte Aéreo Militar) (license plate unknown) had an accident while taking off at Cusco airport ( Peru ). The plane was supposed to fly to Lima . During the take-off run, the left main landing gear collapsed, whereupon the wing touched the ground and a fire broke out. Of the 26 occupants, 22 were killed (2 of the 4 crew members and 20 of the 22 passengers).
- March 15 - An Avro York I of the British Skyways (G-AHFI) lost control while approaching the Berlin-Gatow airport ( Germany ). The machine tipped over the left wing and fell to the ground. All 3 crew members were killed.
- April 1st (probably on the night of March 31st to April 1st) - With a Handley Page Halifax C.8 of the British Westminster Airways (G-AHDL) coming from the Berlin-Gatow airfield as part of the Berlin Airlift , it came to the Schleswigland military airfield crash-landed. All three crew members survived unharmed. The aircraft was totaled.
- (A) May 4 - A Fiat G.212CP the Avio Linee Italiane (I-ELCE) flew on approach to the airport Turin , Italy, at the mount of Sanctuary of Superga . All 31 occupants were killed, including almost the entire AC Turin crew (see Superga plane crash ) .
- May 6 - On a Bristol 170 Mk.31 from the manufacturer Bristol Aircraft Company (G-AIFF) part of a wing apparently broke off during a test flight. The machine crashed into the English Channel 16 miles from the Isle of Portland . All 7 crew members were killed.
- June 19 - The crew of an Avro York C.1 of the British Skyways (G-ALBX) crash-landed off-road near Neustadt ( Germany ). Engine no. 4 failed shortly after take-off, followed by no. 3 at a height of around 160 meters. Since the altitude could not be maintained, there was an emergency landing. All 3 crew members survived.
- (A) June 23 - A Lockheed L-749 Constellation of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (PH-TER) on a flight from Cairo to Amsterdam crashed near Bari , Italy, the Mediterranean. There were no survivors among the 33 occupants of the machine called Roermond . The cause of the accident could not be determined (see Roermond (airplane) ) .
- July 1 ( GMT ) - A Douglas DC-3 / C-47A-20-DL operated by MacRobertson Miller Airlines (VH-MME) crashed immediately after taking off from what was then Guildford (Western Australia) and caught fire. The machine was on a scheduled flight to Darwin. All 18 occupants (14 passengers and 4 crew members) were killed.
- July 12 - A Lockheed L-749 Constellation operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (PH-TDF) flew into a hill five km east of the field on approach to Bombay Airport . All 45 people on board were killed.
- July 12 - A Curtiss C-46E of the standard Airlines (N79978) was on approach to the Burbank airport to the Santa Susana Pass, 15 km north-northwest Van Nuys flew into a mountain. The pilots flew below the safety altitude . Of the 48 people on board, 35 were killed.
- August 11 - A Convair CV-240 of Northeast Airlines (NC91241) crashed upon landing at the Portland airport . All 28 inmates survived. The aircraft was written off as a total loss. The cause was the unintentional activation of the reverse thrust prior to touchdown due to a defective locking mechanism.
- August 15 - The pilots of a Douglas DC-4 / C-54A operated by Transocean Air Lines (N79998) had to ditch about eight miles off the west coast of Ireland . The plane coming from Rome initially flew far out into the Atlantic instead of landing in Shannon . After the crew noticed their mistake and vice versa, the fuel ran out. Seven passengers and one crew member were killed. Another 50 people were rescued by the crew of a fishing trawler .
- August 19 - A Douglas DC-3 / C-47A of the British European Airways (BEA) (G-AHCY) was during the approach to the Manchester Airport flew the airport km north-east into the hills 24th In this CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain , 24 of the 32 occupants were killed (all 3 crew members and 21 passengers).
- (A) September 9 - A Douglas DC-3 of Canadian Pacific Air Lines (CF CUA) was on the flight from Quebec to Baie Comeau. The machine crashednear Sault-aux-Cochon, Quebec , Canada. All 23 inmates were killed. The cause of the crash turned out to be a bomb attack by a man who wanted to collect an insurance sum for his wife on board (see also Canadian Pacific Air Lines flight 108 ) .
- September 27th - In a Douglas DC-4 / C-54A of the Argentine Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (FAMA) there was (LV-ABI) a fire during the flight. During the emergency landing near Castilla ( Province of Buenos Aires , Argentina) 5 of the 27 occupants were killed, 3 crew members and 2 passengers. The plane was destroyed
- October 16 - A Fiat G.212CP of the Egyptian SAIDE ( aircraft registration SU-AFX ) had an accident while taking off from Alexandria airport ( Egypt ). The machine was supposed to fly to Benghazi and was irreparably damaged. All three crew members, the only occupants, survived the accident.
- (A) Oct. 28 - A Lockheed L-749A Constellation of Air France (F-BaZn) was on the island of Sao Miguel , Azores , landing at the airport of Santa Maria flew into a mountain. All 48 people on board were killed (see Air France flight 009 ) .
- (A) Nov. 1 - A fighter aircraft of the type Lockheed P-38 Lightning of the Bolivian Aviation Authority (NX26927) came just before the airport Washington / National with a Douglas DC-4 of the Eastern Air Lines (N88727) together, just in the Final approach curve. All 55 occupants of the DC-4 were killed. At this point in time, the Bolivian pilot had approached without clearance (see Eastern Air Lines flight 537 ) .
- November 24 - A Bristol 170 Freighter Mk.21E operated by the Spanish airline Aviaco (EC-ADK) rolled over the end of the runway at Mahon-Menorca Airport (San Luis) and was irreparably damaged. All 26 occupants, 22 passengers and 4 crew members survived.
- Nov. 27 - A Douglas DC-3 / C-47B-5 DL of Aigle Azur (F-OABJ) was destroyed in an accident near Dong Khe, a major French military base in the Indochina war . 10 inmates were killed.
See also
- List of aviation accidents from 1950 to 1970
- List of aviation accidents 1971 to 1990
- List of aviation accidents 1991 to 2000
- List of aviation accidents from 2001 to 2010
- List of aviation accidents from 2011 to 2020
- List of aircraft accidents (military aviation) until 1980
- List of aircraft accidents (military aviation) from 1981
- List of space disasters
- List of shipping disasters
- List of serious accidents in rail transport
- List of disasters
literature
- Stanley Stuart: Emergency . 1999, ISBN 3-924208-18-2 .
- Mike Sharpe: The biggest air disasters . Bindlach 1998, ISBN 3-8112-1670-8 .
- Andrew Brookes: Disasters in the Sky . 1994, ISBN 3-7637-5930-1 .
- Karcev Khazanovskij: Why were the experts wrong? Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-341-00545-5 .
- Michel Brun: Incident at Sakhalin . Four Walls Eight Windows, New York 1995, ISBN 1-56858-054-1 .
- Dirk Hecht: The crash of the Lufthansa plane “Cologne” on November 12, 1937 near Schriesheim . In: Schriesheimer Jahrbuch 2012 , Schriesheim 2012, pp. 153–168, ISSN 1434-5579 .
Web links
- Aviation Safety Network - comprehensive information on aircraft accidents
- Aviation disasters in civil aviation
- Federal Agency for Aircraft Accident Investigation
Individual evidence
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