Country
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Budapest City District
Crash of a Cessna 421C Golden Eagle III in Budapest
Date & Time:
Mar 25, 1993
Registration:
HA-ACA
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Budapest - Budapest
MSN:
421C-0615
YOM:
1979
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
The crew was engaged in a local training flight at Budapest-Ferihegy Airport. In unknown circumstances, the crew was forced to attempt an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed near the control tower, bursting into flames. Both occupants were injured.
Crash of a PZL-Mielec AN-2TP in Hármashatárhegy: 9 killed
Date & Time:
May 11, 1982
Operator:
Registration:
HA-ANL
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Budaörs - Dunakeszi
MSN:
1G187-34
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
7
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
9
Circumstances:
Operated by Air Service Hungary (Repülögépes Szolgalat Allami Vallat), the aircraft was completing a special flight from Budaörs to Dunakeszi, carrying two pilots and seven passengers on behalf of the Hungarian Aerobatic Club (Magyar Honvédelmi Szövetség – MHSZ). While flying in limited visibility due to marginal weather conditions, the single engine airplane struck the slope of a mountain located in Hármashatárhegy, in the north suburb of Budapest. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all nine occupants were killed.
Probable cause:
It was determined that the accident was the consequence of a wrong altimeter setting.
Crash of an Ilyushin II-18V in Budapest: 9 killed
Date & Time:
Jan 15, 1975 at 1721 LT
Operator:
Registration:
HA-MOH
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Berlin - Budapest
MSN:
184 0071 04
YOM:
1964
Flight number:
MA801A
Crew on board:
9
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
9
Circumstances:
The approach to Budapest-Ferihegy Airport runway 31L was initiated in poor weather conditions with limited visibility due to fog. On short final, the pilot-in-command elected to make a go-around when the airplane struck the ground and crashed 1,360 meters short of runway 31L threshold and 120 meters to the left of its centerline. The airplane crashed and burned and all nine crew members who were completing a ferry flight from Berlin-Schönefeld Airport were killed. At the time of the accident, the horizontal visibility was reported to be 300 meters with a 1,500 meters RVR for runway 31L. The vertical visibility was 30 meters.
Probable cause:
It is believed that the crew mistook the runway lights with the apron lights. The crew initiated a go-around procedure after he changed his decisions four times during the 27 seconds preceding impact.
