ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327904
| Date: | Friday 26 March 1982 |
| Time: | 18:00 |
| Type: |  Dornier 228-100 |
| Owner/operator: | Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH |
| Registration: | D-IFNS |
| MSN: | 4358 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 210 hours |
| Cycles: | 180 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Igenhausen -
 Germany
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Oberpfaffenhofen Airport (OBF/EDMO) |
| Oberpfaffenhofen Airport (OBF/EDMO) |
The Dornier 228-100 prototype, registration D-IFNS, was destroyed when it crashed during a test flight. All three crew members, a Dornier test pilot and two U.K. CAA pilots were killed in the accident.
The flight was part of the UK Civil Aviation Authority's certification programme for the type. It took off from Oberpfaffenhofen Airport (OBF) at 17:27. Nose-down trim was selected. The Dornier entered a steep dive from which the crew was not able to recover.
Sources:
Flight International, 3 April 1982
Location
Images:
photo (c) Guenter Frank; near Igenhausen; 27 March 1982
photo (c) Guenter Frank; near Igenhausen; 27 March 1982
photo (c) Guenter Frank; near Igenhausen; 27 March 1982
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