London-Heathrow - Innsbruck

On August 9, 1968 at 01:04 PM, London-Heathrow - Innsbruck experienced a crash involving Vickers Viscount, operated by British Eagle Airways - BEA, with the event recorded near Langenbruck Bavaria.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

48 people were known to be on board, 48 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: 44, passenger fatalities: 44, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. While cruising at an altitude of 21,000 feet south of Ingolstadt, the pilot informed ATC that a fire erupted on board, declared an emergency and requested the permission to divert to Munich Airport. The crew immediately started an emergency descent when control was lost. The airplane entered a dive, partially disintegrated in the air and eventually crashed in flames on a highway. Debris were found in an open field and the main wreckage on the Munich - Nuremberg highway. The tail was found about three km from the main wreckage. Rescue teams were hampered in their mission and it was really difficult to reach the crash site as the highway was totally jammed by cars from people living on holidays. None of the 48 occupants survived the crash. At the time of the accident, weather conditions were considered as good despite broken clouds from 800 feet till 15,000 feet.

Aircraft reference details include registration G-ATFN, MSN 394, year of manufacture 1958.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 48.6380°, 11.5115°.