1960 Munich C-131 crash

1960 aviation disaster in Munich, West Germany the 1958 accident that involved Manchester United Munich air disaster October 2019 1960 Munich C-131 crash Convair C-131D Samaritan USAF.jpg A C-131D similar to the accident aircraft 17 December 1960 Take-off failure Accident West of Munich-Riem Airport, Munich, West Germany 48 8 20 N 11 32 59 E type:landmark_scale:10000_region:DE-BY inline,title 52 (including 32 on the ground) 20 (on the ground) Convair C-131D (CV-340) Third Air Force, United States Air Force 55-0291 Munich-Riem Airport RAF Northolt 13 7 20 0 32 20 On 17 December 1960, a Convair C-131D Samaritan operated by the United States Air Force on a flight from Munich to RAF Northolt crashed shortly after take-off from Munich-Riem Airport, due to fuel contamination. All 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground were killed.Ranter Harro Accident description http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19601217-0 live https://web.archive.org/web/20050313190128/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19601217-0 13 March 2005 28 July 2014 aviation-safety.net Aviation Safety NetworkACCIDENT DETAILS http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1960/1960-68.htm www.planecrashinfo.com 28 July 2014 Accident thumb|left|upright|St. Paul's Church, Munich On 17 December 1960, the Samaritan was due to fly from Munich-Riem airport in Germany to RAF Northolt in the United Kingdom with 13 passengers and 7 crew. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft lost power to one of its two Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engines. Unable to maintain altitude and with bad visibility due to fog, it hit the 318 ft m on steeple of St. Paul's Church next to the Oktoberfest site (then vacant) in the Ludwigsvorstadt borough. Subsequently, at 2:10 PM, it crashed into a crowded two-section Munich tramway car on Martin-Greif-Straße, close to Bayerstraße.Stankiewitz Karl 17 December 2020 Flugzeugabsturz vor 60 Jahren in München: "Gerade ist Furchtbares passiert" Plane crash 60 years ago in Munich: "A terrible thing has just happened" https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/flugzeugabsturz-vor-60-jahren-in-muenchen-gerade-ist-furchtbares-passiert-art-692351 live https://web.archive.org/web/20201217093425/https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/flugzeugabsturz-vor-60-jahren-in-muenchen-gerade-ist-furchtbares-passiert-art-692351 17 December 2020 Abendzeitung München de All 13 passengers and 7 crew members on the plane died. 32 people on the ground were killed and 20 were injured. A section of the wing crashed through the roof of a building at Hermann-Lingg-Straße, a block away from the main accident site, without injuring anybody there. The Free Lance-Star, a daily newspaper for Fredricksburg and its surrounding areas, reported that some passengers on the Convair were holiday-bound University of Maryland students who were dependents of military personnel stationed in England.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yKoRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=becDAAAAIBAJ&dq=munich&pg=1454%2C5387073 The Free Lance-Star 17 December 1960 Munich Plane Crash Kills 50–60 Today 18 December 2020 Aircraft The accident aircraft, Convair C-131D-CO Samaritan, (c/n 212, company designation: Model 340-79), was a twin piston engined military transport with seating for 44 passengers. Given the military serial number 55-0291, the aircraft was the first United States Air Force C-131 to be based in Europe, at RAF Northolt, where it was under command of the 7500th Air Base Group, 3rd Air Force, U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE).Royal Air Force Northolt Convair Feature http://www.landair.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cvr.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080211115718/http://www.landair.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cvr.htm 11 February 2008 28 July 2014 landair.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Investigation A crash investigation revealed water in the fuel tank booster pump. Because water is more dense than fuel it can settle to the bottom of the tank, into the pump inlets; when it freezes it blocks inlets and deprives the engine of fuel. This deprivation of fuel caused the Munich C-131 to lose power and eventually shut down the engine. Aftermath After the accident, the Munich Fire & Rescue Services ordered new TLF 16 powder trucks to complement their fleet of traditional water tenders.Nachkreigszeit: 1945 bis 1970 Post-war period: 1945 to 1970 https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kreisverwaltungsreferat/Branddirektion-Muenchen/Wir-ueber-uns/Historie/Geschichte/Nachkriegszeit.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20131220162939/http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kreisverwaltungsreferat/Branddirektion-Muenchen/Wir-ueber-uns/Historie/Geschichte/Nachkriegszeit.html 20 December 2013 18 December 2020 Muenchen.de dehttps://www.oldtimerfreunde-feuerwehr-flensburg.de/seiten/tlf-16_5 TLF-16 10 June 2018 de Oldtimerfreunde Feuerwerk Flensburg 18 December 2020 24 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201124054526/https://www.oldtimerfreunde-feuerwehr-flensburg.de/seiten/tlf-16_5 dead Munich had initiated expansion plans for Munich-Riem Airport in 1954. However, two plane crashes within the Munich city limit in the space of two years, and the New York air disaster that happened a day before, stopped the expansion plans. The city and state governments decided to build a new airport outside the city limit instead. Similar discussions were held in Hamburg about its Fuhlsbüttel Airport, but the airport was expanded rather than relocated elsewhere, making the airport the oldest continuously operated in Germany to this day.Jaentschi-Haucke Karin Bezirksvereinigung Südbayern District Association of Southern Bavaria http://www.vwl.uni-freiburg.de/fakultaet/vw/dvwg/suedbayern.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20010914193010/http://www.vwl.uni-freiburg.de/fakultaet/vw/dvwg/suedbayern.html 14 September 2001 28 July 2014 www.vwl.uni-freiburg.de GermanHistory 1910–1916 Early history http://www.ham.airport.de/en/c_history_1281.html www.ham.airport.de 28 July 2014 thumb|upright|Memorial plaque at the accident site (translation: "In memory of the 52 victims of the airplane crash on 17 December 1960") See also Aviation Germany United Kingdom List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft References 30em Other sources Oberbayerisches Volksblatt / Rosenheimer Anzeiger (No. 293 – year 106), 19 December 1960 (German) Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 569/1960 Summary of a TV report (German). Retrieved 23 January 2019. Great Disasters by Editor John Canning, 0-907407-95-1 published by Octopus in 1976. Erinnerungen an das Drama in München. Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation: text, video and pictures (German). Retrieved 23 January 2019. Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Germany Category:History of Munich Munich Convair 340 Crash, 1960 Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1960 Category:Accidents and incidents involving United States Air Force aircraft Category:1960s in Munich Category:Germany–United States relations Category:University System of Maryland Category:December 1960 in Europe Category:Tram accidents Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family