D-CABB_1984-10_MUC_1600_KZ
Photo taken by Karl Zeller and uploaded with his kind permission.
München-Riem
October 1984
D-CABB (1)
Fairchild Swearingen SA-227AC Metro III
AC-500
Nürnberger Flugdienst (NFD)
D-CABB parked close to the Lufthansa maintenance hangar. The Learjet behind looks like Bavarian Red Cross's D-CBRK.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour and Michael Röser:
Registered as N3107K then D-IABB and delivered to NFD-Nürnberger Flugdienst in 1982. Reregistered as D-CABB in 1983 due to an increased Maximum Take Off Weight. Destroyed in a fatal crash on approach to Dusseldorf in 1988.
While operating NS108 from Hannover to Düsseldorf 8 February 1988 suffered a lightning strike in severe weather. Loss of electrical power led to an uncontrollable flying condition and break up in mid air resulting in the loss of all on board.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/sa_307
Note: D-CABB (2) was Israel Aircraft Industries IAI-1125 Astra SP c/n 059 flying for Vibro Air Services from September 2005 to September 2017.
Accident report:
asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/326593
This airframe as D-IABB with Bat-Air Flugdienst at CGN in May 1982 (markings on the tail for the 500th Merlin/Metro):
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/16030803396
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
D-CABB_1984-10_MUC_1600_KZ
Photo taken by Karl Zeller and uploaded with his kind permission.
München-Riem
October 1984
D-CABB (1)
Fairchild Swearingen SA-227AC Metro III
AC-500
Nürnberger Flugdienst (NFD)
D-CABB parked close to the Lufthansa maintenance hangar. The Learjet behind looks like Bavarian Red Cross's D-CBRK.
Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour and Michael Röser:
Registered as N3107K then D-IABB and delivered to NFD-Nürnberger Flugdienst in 1982. Reregistered as D-CABB in 1983 due to an increased Maximum Take Off Weight. Destroyed in a fatal crash on approach to Dusseldorf in 1988.
While operating NS108 from Hannover to Düsseldorf 8 February 1988 suffered a lightning strike in severe weather. Loss of electrical power led to an uncontrollable flying condition and break up in mid air resulting in the loss of all on board.
Registration details for this airframe:
www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/sa_307
Note: D-CABB (2) was Israel Aircraft Industries IAI-1125 Astra SP c/n 059 flying for Vibro Air Services from September 2005 to September 2017.
Accident report:
asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/326593
This airframe as D-IABB with Bat-Air Flugdienst at CGN in May 1982 (markings on the tail for the 500th Merlin/Metro):
www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/16030803396
Scan from Kodachrome slide.