Essen - Innsbruck

On December 27, 1978 at 10:45 AM, Essen - Innsbruck experienced a crash involving Rockwell Turbo Commander 680/681, operated by WDL Aviation, with the event recorded near Niedernach Bavaria.

The flight was categorized as positioning and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. While in cruising altitude on a positioning flight from Essen-Mülheim Airport to Innsbruck-Kranebitten Airport, the pilot lost control of the airplane that entered a dive and crashed in the Walchensee (Walchen Lake) off Niedernach, Bavaria. The aircraft was destroyed upon impact and the pilot, sole on board, was killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration D-IMON, MSN 680-1819-33, year of manufacture 1968.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 47.5864°, 11.3946°.