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| Date: | Friday 10 June 1955 |
| Time: | 23:30 |
| Type: |  Boeing B-29A Superfortress |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 44-61780 |
| MSN: | 11257 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | ca 1 mi E of Owen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire |
| Fürstenfeldbruck Airfield, Munich, West Germany |
The crew was performing a flight from RAF Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, to Stuttgart. While approaching Stuttgart-Echterdingen Airport by night, the crew was contacted by ATC and rerouted to Fürstenfeldbruck Airbase near Munich due to insufficient visibility caused by foggy conditions. A few minutes later, while cruising at low height, the airplane hit the slope of the 775-metre/2,543 foot Mount Teckberg, located about 1 mile east of Owen. All ten crew members were killed.
Cause: Controlled flight into terrain
Sources:
Passauer Neue Presse 13 June 1955, p1
http://www.teckblicker.de/drama-am-teckberg.html (German Text)
Toledo Blade 11 June 1955, p2
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Sep-2013 17:17 | TB | Added |
| 13-Dec-2013 11:04 | Anon. | Updated [Date, Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Destination airport, ] |
| 13-Dec-2013 11:20 | Anon. | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 25-Dec-2013 20:46 | Anon. | Updated [Registration, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 04-Feb-2014 21:12 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 08-Feb-2014 18:15 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Jun-2017 17:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Jun-2019 19:21 | TB | Updated [Location, Source, ] |
| 14-Jun-2019 19:24 | TB | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 21-Dec-2024 16:03 | Uli Elch | Updated [Location, ] |
| 23-May-2025 13:05 | TB | Updated [Time, Location, ] |
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