Salzburg – Innsbruck

On October 26, 1988 at 04:04 PM, Salzburg – Innsbruck experienced a crash involving Cessna 501 Citation I, operated by Aero Technik, with the event recorded near Salzburg Salzburg.

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

2 people were known to be on board, 2 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: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Two minutes after takeoff from Salzburg-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Airport runway 16/34, while climbing to a height of 3,300 feet, the crew initiated a right turn when the aircraft collided with a private Cessna 172 registered OE-DLC and carrying four people. Both aircraft entered a dive and crashed few km west of the airport. All six people in both aircraft were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration OE-FFK, MSN 501-0124, year of manufacture 1979.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 47.8122°, 13.0437°.