Frankfurt - Bremen - Hamburg

On January 28, 1966 at 05:50 PM, Frankfurt - Bremen - Hamburg experienced a crash involving Convair CV-440 Metropolitan, operated by Lufthansa, with the event recorded near Bremen-Neuenland Bremen.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

46 people were known to be on board, 46 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 42, passenger fatalities: 42, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The aircraft was operating a scheduled service of Deutsche Lufthansa on the route Frankfurt - Bremen - Hamburg under flight number LH 005. Scheduled time of departure in Frankfurt: 1625 hours GMT, scheduled time of arrival at Bremen: 1745 hours GMT. Actually, the aircraft took off at 1641 hours GMT. The last phase of the flight can be roughly reconstructed from the tape recordings, the evidence given by the witnesses and the position of the wreckage as follows: 17.41 GMT Descending from flight level 60 and clearance for ILS approach to runway 27 at Bremen. 17.44 GMT Passing of radio beacon Bremen outbound. 17.48 GMT Passing of radio beacon Bremen inbound on final approach. 17.49.37 GMT The aircraft was seen for the first time by witnesses about 1 000 m approximately before the threshold of runway 27 near the middle marker; later it was observed by the control tower with its landing gear extended and the landing lights turned on. 17.50.15 GMT About 1 200 m after the threshold of runway 27, close to the intersec- approximately tion of runways 27/09 and 32/14, the aircraft went round again at an altitude of about 30 ft above ground with a compass course of about 2700. 17.50.40 GMT With a pitch of about 300 to 600 and the left wing forward the aircraft approximately crashed on the ground in the opposite direction to runway 27, about 385 m west of the end of runway 27 and about 380 m south of the runway centre line. The aircraft was totally destroyed and none of the 46 occupants survived.

Aircraft reference details include registration D-ACAT, MSN 464, year of manufacture 1958.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 53.0536°, 8.7761°.