Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634
1993 aviation incident that killed 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 6 January 1993, Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 departed Bremen Airport for Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport at 17:30. Operating the flight was a Dash 8-311, with 23 passengers and crew.
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_AN0193922.jpg) D-BEAT, the aircraft involved in the accident, in May 1992. | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 6 January 1993 |
| Summary | Crashed short of runway |
| Site | Near Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, France |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 |
| Operator | Contact Air for Lufthansa CityLine |
| Registration | D-BEAT |
| Flight origin | Bremen Airport, Germany |
| Destination | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, France |
| Occupants | 23 |
| Passengers | 19 |
| Crew | 4 |
| Fatalities | 4 |
| Injuries | 19 |
| Survivors | 19 |
Accident
When Flight 5634 was nearing Paris, a Korean Air Boeing 747 scraped an engine pod on landing, causing air traffic controllers to close the runway briefly. The pilots were notified to change course to another runway. While in clouds and heavy fog on short final, the airliner entered a high sink rate and crashed into the ground tail-first. The aircraft broke into two, but there was no fire. The crash killed 4 passengers and 19 further were injured in the accident.
Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-311, MSN 210, registered as D-BEAT, that was built by de Havilland Canada in 1990. It logged 5973 airframe hours and was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW123 engines.[1]
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