Wiener Neustadt - Wiener Neustadt

On October 6, 1965 at 03:03 PM, Wiener Neustadt - Wiener Neustadt experienced a crash involving De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, operated by Austrian Air Force - Österreichische Luftstreitkräfte, with the event recorded near Waldegg-Peisching Lower Austria.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a plain, valley crash site.

6 people were known to be on board, 6 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 4, passenger fatalities: 4, other fatalities: 0.

The crew left Wiener Neustadt Airport for a local training mission with four skydivers on board. The airplane was in a formation with three other similar aircraft. Three minutes after takeoff, while climbing, the single aircraft went out of control and crashed in a prairie located 14 km northwest of the airfield. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces and all six occupants were killed. Crew: Wilfling Franz, pilot, Farkas Franz, pilot. Passengers: Paky Leopold, Leeb Gerd, Parzer Werner, Hofer Harald.

Aircraft reference details include registration 3B-GE, MSN 1424, year of manufacture 1960.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 47.8688°, 16.0467°.