D-ALAR, the BAC One-Eleven involved, seen nine months before the accident | |
Accident | |
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Date | 6 September 1971 |
Summary | Dual engine failure following engine overheating |
Site | Bundesautobahn 7 near Hamburg, West Germany 53°42′10″N 09°56′33″E / 53.70278°N 9.94250°E / 53.70278; 9.94250 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | BAC One-Eleven |
Operator | Paninternational |
Registration | D-ALAR |
Flight origin | Hamburg Airport, Hamburg, West Germany |
Destination | Málaga Airport, Málaga, Spain |
Occupants | 121 |
Passengers | 115 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 22 |
Injuries | 99 |
Survivors | 99 |
Paninternational Flight 112 was a BAC One-Eleven operated by German airline Paninternational that crashed in Hamburg on 6 September 1971 while attempting to land on an autobahn following the failure of both engines. The accident killed 22 passengers and crew out of 121 on board.
The aircraft involved was a BAC One-Eleven registered as D-ALAR and first flew one year before the accident.
Paninternational Flight 112 took off from Hamburg Airport in Hamburg, West Germany, on a flight to Málaga Airport in Málaga, Spain, with 115 passengers and six crew on board. The captain was Reinhold Hüls, a former military pilot with more than 3,000 hours flying time; co-pilot Elisabeth Friske was the first woman jet pilot in West Germany, at the time with only 7 hours in the BAC One-Eleven. After the takeoff, as the aircraft climbed through 300 metres (980 ft), both engines failed and the captain decided to make an emergency landing on a highway – Bundesautobahn 7 (also part of European route E45) – about 4.5 km (2.8 mi; 2.4 nmi) from Hamburg Airport. During the landing, on the south-bound carriageway to avoid heavy traffic out of Hamburg, the aircraft deflected to the left and collided with an overpass and multiple concrete pillars, causing the right wing, cockpit, and T-tail to shear off. The rest of the fuselage broke up and skidded to a halt resting against an oak tree, and subsequently caught fire. The accident killed twenty-one passengers and one crew member.
Subsequent investigation showed that one or two of the five tanks for the water-injection engine thrust-augmentation system (used during take-off) had inadvertently been filled with kerosene instead of with demineralised water. Spraying this additional jet fuel into the engines caused them to overheat and fail shortly after take-off. Two maintenance workers for Paninternational were sentenced to prison terms in 1974.
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1971 (1971) | |
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Jan 7 B-52C Lake Michigan crashJan 18 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 130Jan 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crashJan 30 Indian Airlines hijackingJan 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crashMar 31 Aeroflot Flight 1969May 23 Aviogenex Flight 130May 28 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680Jun 6 Hughes Airwest Flight 706Jun 7 Allegheny Airlines Flight 485Jul 3 Toa Domestic Airlines Flight 63Jul 25 Aeroflot Flight 1912Jul 30 All Nippon Airways Flight 58Jul 30 Pan Am Flight 845Aug 28 Malév Flight 731Sep 4 Alaska Airlines Flight 1866Sep 6 Paninternational Flight 112Sep 13 Lin Biao incidentSep 16 Malév Flight 110Oct 2 British European Airways Flight 706Oct 10 Aeroflot Flight 773Nov 9 Aeroflot Flight N-63Nov 9 Livorno RAF Hercules crashNov 10 Indian Ocean Vickers Viscount crashNov 20 China Airlines Flight 825Nov 24 D. B. Cooper hijackingDec 1 Aeroflot Flight 2174Dec 2 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 712Dec 24 LANSA Flight 508 | |
1970 ◄ ► 1972 |