Spantax Flight 275
 EC-BZP, sister-ship to the accident aircraft | |
| Accident summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 December 1972 |
| Summary | Loss of control after/during take-off |
| Site |
Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport 28°29′1.33″N 16°20′36.20″W / 28.4837028°N 16.3433889°WCoordinates: 28°29′1.33″N 16°20′36.20″W / 28.4837028°N 16.3433889°W |
| Passengers | 148 |
| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 155 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Convair 990 Coronado |
| Operator | Spantax |
| Registration | EC-BZR |
| Flight origin | Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport (TFN/GCXO) |
| Destination | München-Riem Airport (MUC/EDDM) |
Spantax Flight 275 was a Convair 990 Coronado charter flight operated by Spantax with 148 passengers and 7 crew flying from Tenerife to Munich on December 3, 1972. The plane crashed while taking off from Tenerife-Norte Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, killing everyone aboard. Many of the passengers were West German tourists heading home.
Accident
The flight took off at 06:45am in almost zero visibility and crashed shortly after, 325 metres (1,066 ft) beyond the runway.[1] At an altitude of 91 m (300 ft), the aircraft had initiated a steep turn. The pilot lost control and the aircraft crashed as a result of this unusual maneuver plus the crew's loss of situational awareness in the low visibility conditions.[1][2][3][4] All 155 people aboard were killed.[1][5][6]
At the time, it was the deadliest aircraft crash on the island of Tenerife, but it has since been surpassed by the Tenerife airport disaster in 1977. Currently, it is the deadliest accident involving a Convair 990 Coronado.[7] It was the eighth loss of a Convair 990 Coronado.
Aircraft
The accident aircraft was a Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado. It had been in service since 1962, and had flown for a total of 10 years. The registration number of the aircraft was EC-BZR. The aircraft was destroyed in the crash and was written off.[1]
See also
- Dan-Air Flight 1008
- List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
- Tenerife airport disaster
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ↑ Gero, David (2009). Aviation Disasters: The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950 (5th ed.). Stroud, Gloucestershire: History. ISBN 9780752499925.
- ↑ "AirDisaster.Com: Accident Photo: Spantax 990 Coronado". airdisaster.com.
- ↑ Kebabjian, Richard. "Accident details". planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Spantax S.A. Major Accidents". Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Timeline Airline Crashes and Airplane Bombings". timelines.ws. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Project-Tenerife.com, crash of the Convair at Tenerife". project-tenerife.com.