ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333661
Date: | Saturday 17 December 1960 |
Time: | 14:10 |
Type: | Convair C-131D (CV-340) |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 55-0291 |
MSN: | 212 |
Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
Other fatalities: | 32 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 10 km W of München-Riem Airport (MUC) -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | München-Riem Airport (MUC/EDDM) |
Destination airport: | London-Northolt Airport (NHT/EGWU) |
Narrative:A Convair C-131D military transport plane was destroyed when it crashed into a street in Munich, Germany. All seven crew members and thirteen passengers were killed. A total of 32 people were killed on the ground.
The airplane had just taken off from München-Riem Airport (MUC) and overflew the Munich city centre at low altitude. It clipped the steeple of the St. Paul's church and then crashed onto a streetcar at the corner of Bayer Street.
Sources:
Alexandre Pessotto
Great Disasters / John Canning
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
The Free Lance-Star - Dec 17, 1960 Location
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