Date:	Sunday 22 December 1991
Time:	11:37
Type:	Douglas DC-3A
Owner/operator:	Classic Wings
Registration:	D-CCCC
MSN:	7353
Year of manufacture:	1942
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 32
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Heidelberg-Handschuhsheim -   Germany
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Egelsbach Airfield (EDFE)
Destination airport:	Egelsbach Airfield (EDFE)
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
Struck a tree-covered hill, Hoher Nistler, in low clouds during a left turn. The aircraft had encountered turbulence and IMC, so a standard left turn was initiated.
Factors were poor airmanship, lack of crew coordination and an exceeded maximum takeoff weight and center of gravity.

ICAO Adrep Summary 1/92 (#19)
Scramble 152
Tagesschau

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

26 March 1986

SE-BSM

Swedair AB

0

over Hallsberg

sub

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport (HAM); October 1990

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