1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 crash

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (January 2017) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Absturz der Ju-90 „Brandenburg“ 1940]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Absturz der Ju-90 „Brandenburg“ 1940}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 crash

A Junkers Ju 90, the type of aircraft that crashed
Accident
Date	November 8, 1940 (1940-11-08)
Summary	Tail icing
Site	Schönteichen, Bautzen, Saxony, Germany
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Junkers Ju 90A-1
Aircraft name	Brandenburg
Operator	Deutsche Lufthansa
Registration	D-AVMF
Flight origin	Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany
Destination	Ferihegy Airport, Budapest, Hungary
Passengers	23
Crew	6
Fatalities	29
Survivors	0

On 8 November 1940, a Deutsche Lufthansa Junkers Ju 90 passenger aircraft crashed near the municipality of Schönteichen, Germany, killing all 29 people on board.^[1][2]

The aircraft, registered D-AVMF and named Brandenburg, took off from Berlin Tempelhof Airport at 14:24 with 23 passengers and six crew members. The radio operator contacted ground at 14:48, indicating that they were flying at 2,200 m (7,200 ft) in clouds. He reported icing shortly afterwards. The Ju 90 started descending and crashed into a field. The German musician and journalist Adolf Raskin was killed in the accident.^[3]

51°16′52″N 14°02′24″E / 51.2810°N 14.0400°E / 51.2810; 14.0400

This article about an aviation accident is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e