Date: | Sunday 14 July 1935 |
Time: | 09:40 |
Type: | Fokker F.XXII |
Owner/operator: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
Registration: | PH-AJQ |
MSN: | 5358 |
Year of manufacture: | 1935 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1340-T1D1 Wasp |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 20 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Amsterdam-Schiphol Municipal Airport (AMS) -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Amsterdam-Schiphol Municipal Airport (AMS/EHAM) |
Destination airport: | Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport (HAM/EDDH) |
Narrative:The four-engined airliner named "Kwikstaart" took off from Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport at 09:37 on an international flight to Malmö, Sweden with planned en route stops at Hamburg and Copenhagen. Engines no. 1 and 2 began losing power, forcing the pilot to return to the airport.
The airplane struck the slope of the A4 motorway and crashed. A fire erupted.
Conclusions:
1) Insufficient fuel supply to the engines during takeoff might have made it necessary to manually pump additional fuel. In very unfavourable circumtances there still may be insufficient fuel pressure.
2) The decision of the pilot to return to the airport instead of carrying out a forced landing.
Sources:
aviacrash.nl Opsomming van de bekende ongevallen en incidenten in 1935 / Herman Dekker Location
Images:
photo (c) Polygoon Hollands Nieuws; Amsterdam-Schiphol Municipal Airport (AMS); 14 July 1935
photo (c) Polygoon Hollands Nieuws; Amsterdam-Schiphol Municipal Airport (AMS); 14 July 1935
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