Summary Icing Crew 6 Aircraft type Junkers Ju 90A1 Operator Deutsche Luft Hansa Survivor 0 Location Schönteichen | Passengers 23 Survivors 0 Date 8 November 1940 Total fatalities 29 (all) Passenger count 23 | |
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Site Schönteichen, Bautzen, Saxony, Germany Destination Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport | ||
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.
The aircraft, registered D-AVMF and named Brandenburg, was en route from the German capital Berlin to Budapest, Hungary, when ice formed on its tail, causing the airplane to lose control and crash. At the time, the accident was the worst one on German soil.
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