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26.06.59 (ca. 17.35) Lockheed L-1649A Starliner
N7313C (1015) Trans World Airlines
- TWA
Cccupants: 9 crew + 59 passengers = 68
Fatalities: 9 crew + 59 passengers = 68.
Accident Occured: During Climb
Location: Milano; 20 mi NW (Italy)
Flight: Milano-Malpensa APT - Paris-Orly Flightnr.: 891
Source: ICAO Accident Digest Circular 62-AN/57 (132-152)
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12.08.63 (13.19 GMT) Vickers 708 Viscount
F-BGNV (39) Air Inter [year built:
1954]
Occupants: 4 crew + 16 passengers
Fatalities: 4 crew + 16 passengers
3rd party fatalities: 1
Accident Occured: Initial Approach
Location: Lyon; 24 km N (France)
Flight: Lille - Lyon-Satolas APT Flightnr.: 2611
Source: ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume II, Circular 78-
AN/66 (179-185)
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08.12.63 Boeing 707-121
N709PA (17588/3) Pan American World
Airways [year built: 1958]
Occupants: 8 crew + 73 passengers
Fatalities: 8 crew + 73 passengers
Accident Occured: Initial Approach
Location: Elkton, MD (USA)
Flight: Washington-Baltimore IAP, DC - Philadelphia IAP Flightnr.:
214
Total airframe flying hours: 14609; cycles
Comments: Inflight explosion of fuel tank due to lightning
strike.
Source: ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume II, Circular 78-
AN/66 (121-133)
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24.12.71 (12.36) Lockheed L-188A Electra
OB-R- 941 (1086) LANSA [year built:
1959]
Occupants: 6 crew + 86 passengers
Fatalities: 6 crew + 85 passengers
Accident Occured: Cruise
Location: Puerto Inca (Peru)
Flight Lima-Jorge Chavez IAP - Flightnr.: 508
Comments: About forty minutes after take-off, the aircraft
entered a zone of strong turbulence and lightning. After flying for
twenty minutes in this weather at FL210 lightning struck the aircraft,
causing fire on the right wing which separated, along with part of
the left wing. The aircraft crashed in flames into mountainous terrain.
Structural failure occurred because of the loads imposed on the aircraft
flying through a severe thunderstorm, but also because of stresses
resulting from the manoeuvre to level out the aircraft.
Source:
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09.05.76 (14.35 GMT) Boeing 747-131F
5-8104 (19677/73) Islamic Republic
of Iran Air Force [year built: 1970]
Occupants: 10 crew + 7 passengers
Fatalities: 10 crew + 7 passengers
Freight loss
Accident Occured: Descent
Location: Madrid; nr (Spain)
Flight Tehran-Mehrabad IAP - Madrid-Torrejon AFB Flightnr.:
48
Comments: The Boeing was operated on a military logistic flight
from Tehran to McGuire AFB via Madrid. The flight took off from Tehran
at 08.20h GMT and climbed to a cruising altitude of FL330. After establishing
contact with Madrid control, clearance was received to CPL VOR via
Castejon. At 14.25h the flight was cleared to FL100. At 14.30 the
crew advised Madrid that they were diverting to the elft because of
thunderstorm activity, and at 14.32 Madrid cleared ULF48 to 5000ft
and directed him to contact Madrid approach control. At 14.33 the
crew contacted approach control and advised them that there was too
much weather activity ahead and requested to be vectored around it.
Last radio contact was when ULF48 acknowledged the 260deg heading
instructions and informed Madrid that they were descending to 5000ft.
The aircraft was later found to have crashed in farmland at 3000ft
msl following left wing separation. It appeared that the aircraft
had been struck by lightning, entering a forward part of the aircraft
and exiting from a static discharger on the left wingtip. The lightning
current's conductive path to the static discharger at the tip was
through a bond strap along the trailing edge. Concentration of current
at the riveted joint between this bond strap and a wing rib were sufficient
conductive to cause the flash to reattach to this rivet and to leave
the discharger. Fuel vapors in the no.1 fuel tank then ignited. The
explosion caused the upper wing skin panel to separate, causing a
drastic altering of the aeroelastic properties of the wing, and especially
the outboard section of wing. The outer wing began to oscillate, developing
loads which caused the high-frequency antenna and outer tip to separate.
The whole wing failed a little later.
Source: FI 15.5.76(1283); NTSB-AAR-78-12
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05.09.80 Lockheed L-100-20 Hercules
KAF317 (4350) Kuwait Air Force
Occupants: crew + passengers
Fatalities: crew + passengers
Location: Montelimar; nr (France)
Comments: Crashed after lightning
strike.
Source: FI 03.01.1981 (29)
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08.02.88 (07.58) Swearingen SA.227AC Metro
D-CABB (AC-500) N
-
rnberger Flugdienst - NFD
Occupants: 2 crew + 19 passengers
Fatalities: 2 crew + 19 passengers
Accident Occured: Initial Approach
Location: Mulheim; nr (Germany)
Flight Hannover-Langenhagen APT - D
-
sseldorf Flightnr.: 108
Comments: The Metro aircraft suffered a lightning strike, following
which the electrical system failed. The right wing broke off in an
uncontrolled descent and the aircraft disintegrated.
Source: ICAO Adrep Summary 2/90 (#32)
