Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 09 FEB 1967 |
| Time: | ca 10:41 |
| Type: | Convair T-29A (CV-240) |
| Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 49-1917 |
| C/n / msn: | 184 |
| First flight: | 1950 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 6,5 km (4.1 mls) NE of Wiesbaden AB (WIE) (Germany) |
| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Military test |
| Departure airport: | Wiesbaden-Erbenheim (Y-80) AB (WIE/ETOU), Germany |
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Engine power was lost shortly after takeoff from runway 07 at Wiesbaden AB. The Convair lost height and came down in a plowed field, close to the village of Breckenheim. The airplane caught fire.
Sources:
» US Crashes 1950-2002 / Jan van Waarde
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
