Västerås - Västerås

On October 30, 1956 at 02:11 PM, Västerås - Västerås experienced a crash involving Percival P.66 Pembroke, operated by Swedish Air Force - Flygvapnet, with the event recorded near Västerås Västmanland.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

11 people were known to be on board, 7 fatalities were recorded, 4 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 63.6%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 9, passenger fatalities: 5, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. Shortly after takeoff from Västerås Airport, while on a local training flight, the left engine failed and caught fire. The pilot-in-command elected to maintain a safe altitude but as he was unable to feather the propeller, the airplane lost height, past just over a 70,000 volts high voltage power line and eventually crashed in flames in a wooded area. Six occupants were killed while five others were seriously injured. Three days later, one of the survivor died from his injuries. Source: http://www.anderslif.se/index.html-flygolycka.html

Aircraft reference details include registration 83003, MSN 42, year of manufacture 1956.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 59.6230°, 16.6015°.