Passengers 19 Fatalities 4 Date 6 January 1993 Injuries (nonfatal) 19 Operator Lufthansa CityLine | Crew 4 Survivors 19 Number of deaths 4 Destination Charles de Gaulle Airport Location France | |
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Summary Crashed short of runway Site Near Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, France Similar Lufthansa Flight 2904, Lufthansa Flight 592, Indian Airlines Flight 491 | ||
On 6 January 1993, Lufthansa Cityline Flight 5634 was on a flight from Bremen Airport to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in France. The Dash 8-311, registration D-BEAT, with 23 passengers and crew took off from Bremen Airport at 17:30. When Flight 5634 was nearing Paris a Korean Air Boeing 747 burst a tyre on landing and the runway was closed down for a short while. The pilot had to change course to another runway and started an approach when Flight 5634 entered a high sink rate and crashed into the ground tail-first. The aircraft broke into two parts, but there was no fire. The crash killed 4 passengers and 19 were injured in the accident.
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