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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Pages in category "Lufthansa accidents and incidents" ... 1929 Luft Hansa Junkers G 24 crash; Lufthansa Cargo ...
Excavations was performed at the crash site in 1952, finding Künstle's pilot's license and personal belongings of the occupants. The remains were buried at Tegernbach. According to eyewitness accounts, the aircraft was on fire as it circled Piesenkofen, began hitting trees and crashed in a near-vertical dive; a portion of the left wing was ...
Lufthansa Flight 540 was a scheduled commercial flight for Lufthansa, serving the Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg route.. On 20 November 1974, the Boeing 747-130 that was operating as Flight 540 was carrying 157 people (139 passengers and 18 crew members) crashed and caught fire shortly after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi for the last leg of the flight ...
Lufthansa Flight 2904 was cleared to land at Okęcie International Airport Runway 11 and was informed of the existence of wind shear on the approach. [1] To compensate for the crosswind, the pilots attempted to touch down with the aircraft banked slightly to the right and with a speed of about 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) faster than usual ...
Lufthansa chief executive officer Carsten Spohr visited the crash location the day following the crash; he said it was "the darkest day for Lufthansa in its 60-year history". [128] Several Germanwings flights were cancelled on 24 and 25 March due to the pilots' grief at the murders and at the loss of their colleagues. [129]
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
Wreckage of Japan Airlines Flight 123, the worst single aircraft crash in history. Japan Airlines Flight 123 – Flight 123 was flying over Japan when part of its vertical stabilizer detached, causing some hydraulic loss which led to losing control. Flight crews tried to recover the plane and head back to Tokyo, but it was too late.
The accident was the first fatal accident involving the A321, and the deadliest plane crash in Pakistan. [115] On 5 November 2014, Lufthansa Flight 1829, an Airbus A321-231 registered as D-AIDP, was flying from Bilbao to Munich when the aircraft, while on autopilot, lowered the nose into a descent reaching 4000 fpm. The uncommanded pitch-down ...