Egelsbach - Egelsbach

On January 11, 1999 at 12:00 AM, Egelsbach - Egelsbach experienced a crash involving Mitsubishi MU-2 Marquise, operated by Mag Marketing, with the event recorded near Egelsbach Hesse.

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

2 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

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

The listed crash cause is human factor. On January 11 1999, during a local check flight for the new owner-pilot, as the aircraft was descending through about 150 feet during the final stage of a visual approach to Runway 27 at Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, Egelsbach, the pilot 'pulled the throttles back to ground idle.' The check pilot immediately moved the throttles forward again but meanwhile the aircraft had developed a high rate of descent and it touched down very hard on the threshold of Runway 27 wherein the nose gear and left main landing gear broke off.

Aircraft reference details include registration N95MJ, MSN 1564, year of manufacture 1983.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 49.9668°, 8.6659°.