Date: | Monday 16 October 1944 |
Time: | 20:25 |
Type: | Junkers Ju-52/3mg8e |
Owner/operator: | Deutsche Lufthansa |
Registration: | D-ADQV |
MSN: | 640608 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Total airframe hrs: | 1293 hours |
Engine model: | BMW 132Z |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Hestnutan, Seljord, Telemark -
Norway
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | København-Kastrup Airport (CPH/EKCH) |
Destination airport: | Oslo-Fornebu Airport (FBU/ENFB) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Junkers Ju-52/3m passenger plane, named "Hermann Stache" was destroyed when it crashed into a mountain (Skorvefjell) in bad weather. Three crew and twelve passengers were killed.
The airplane operated on Deutsche Lufthansa flight 7 from Berlin to Copenhagen and Oslo. It departed Copenhagen at 17:50. After passing Skagen, Denmark the airplane drifted West off course. Radio contact with the ground was lost and the crew initiated a descent when they assumed to be near Oslo. They descended below clouds in order to obtain visual contact with the ground. It collided with a mountain at an altitude of 1355 m.
Investigators concluded that the radio equipment of the flight had failed.
Sources:
Junkeren som styrtet på Hestnutan Location
Images:
photo (c) Tor Ånund Åsheim; Hestnutan, Seljord, Telemark; 13 September 2019
photo (c) Tor Ånund Åsheim; Hestnutan, Seljord, Telemark; 13 September 2019
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