Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
02JUL2006 at 1038LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
D-FVIP
Location
 
Hamburg
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Hamburg - Hamburg
 
Construction number
 
1512
Year of manufacture
 
1962
     
Crew on board
 
1
Pax on board
 
5
Crew fatalities
 
1
Pax fatalities
 
4
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
5

Circumstances
   
 
The aircraft, owned by the German operator Himmelsschreiber Azur GmbH, was planned to make a sighseeing tour over Hamburg. Less than 2 minutes after takeoff, the engine lost power, the aircraft stalled and hit a wagon before crashing into flames on a railway road. Four passengers were killed instantly while the pilot and a child were seriously injured. The aircraft burnt and was destroyed. The pilot, who was burnt 80%, died the day later.
   



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