Luft-Hansa-Flug 19
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 44 ″ N , 9 ° 34 ′ 50 ″ E
| Luft-Hansa-Flug 19 | |
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 A Fokker F.II from Luft-Hansa similar to the crashed Spree |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into the ground |
| place | Near Elm (Schlüchtern) |
| date | August 24, 1929 |
| Fatalities | 4th |
| Survivors | 1 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Fokker-Grulich F.II |
| operator | Luft Hansa |
| Mark | D-757 |
| Surname | Spree |
| Departure airport | Frankfurt-Rebstock Airport |
| Stopover | Leipzig / Halle Airport |
| Destination airport | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport |
| Passengers | 4th |
| crew | 1 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Luft-Hansa-Flug 19 crashed on August 24, 1929 near Elm (Schlüchtern) .
course
The Fokker-Grulich F.II with the name Spree was supposed to fly on route 19 from Frankfurt via Leipzig to Berlin. The scheduled start for 7 a.m. had to be postponed due to poor visibility. At 7:40 am, the Spree started with its destination Leipzig. Flight 19's flight route led via Gießen and Kassel to Leipzig. About 10 minutes after the start, the Spree was sighted again via Frankfurt, now on a direct course towards Leipzig. From 9 a.m., the aircraft was sighted circling over Schlüchtern for about 20 minutes . At 9:30 a.m., the Spree collided with some trees and fell, three of the occupants were thrown from the aircraft. The Fokker's hull was crushed by a falling tree. At around 10 a.m., Frankfurt Airport was informed of the crash. In the crash, three of the five people on board the plane died. One passenger later died in hospital. It was the worst crash with a Fokker-Grulich F.II.
Cause of accident
After examining the rubble, no errors were found. On the basis of the sightings, it was reconstructed that shortly after take-off the pilot had decided to fly directly to Leipzig. The Fokker circled near Schlüchtern, presumably to wait for better visibility for the overflight of the Rhön . When the pilot decided to fly over, he probably had misjudged the altitude, so that the Fokker collided with the trees. Another contributory factor was the lack of an altimeter.
literature
- Eckard Sauer: crash in the Kinzig valley. Aviation in the Hessian Kinzigtal from 1895 to 1950. ( Book-on-Demand ) Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-8607-2 , pages 19-22. ( limited preview on Google Books )