Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary - official |
| Date: | 16 FEB 2006 |
| Time: | ca 11:15 |
| Type: | Cessna 501 Citation I/SP |
| Operator: | Hasit Trockenmörtel GmbH |
| Registration: | D-IMRX |
| C/n / msn: | 501-0688 |
| First flight: | 1985 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Buschin (Iraq)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Baku-Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD/UBBB), Azerbaijan |
| Sulaymaniyah International Airport (ISU/ORSU), Iraq |
The German Cessna Citation departed Munich on February 14 for a flight to Iraq. Intermediate stops were made at Budapest (BUD) and Baku (BAK). Contact with the plane was lost as it descended through 8,000 feet (2,450 metres). The wreckage was found on February 19, at an elevation of 4,250 feet (1,300 metres).
Events:
Sources:
» BFU 4X003-06
» Reuters
» ddp
» ZDF
Photos
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Baku-Heydar Aliyev International Airport to Sulaymaniyah International Airport as the crow flies is 680 km (425 miles).
Distance from Baku-Heydar Aliyev International Airport to Sulaymaniyah International Airport as the crow flies is 680 km (425 miles).
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.
