Introduction
It was September 6, 1971 when a flight was scheduled from Hamburg Airport, Germany to Malaga Airport, Spain carrying 121 people out of which 6 were crew members and 115 were passengers. Flight took off from the airport and everything was normal. But, suddenly airport noticed that both engines failed and without thrust pilot was unable to land back on the airport.
Now, the highway was visible from the sky and pilot decided to land on the highway which was about 4.5 km from the airport. While landing the bridge collided with the aircraft and sheared off its both wings which also resulted in fire.
This accident killed 21 passengers and 1 crew member. Other 99 on board survived the crash with injuries.
Investigation report revealed that Water-Injection engine thrust-agumentation system was filled with jet fuel instead of water. It sprays the water into the engine but that day it was spraying jet fuel instead of water which resulted in the increase in the rpm of the engine and also the temperature of the engine was increased. Due to overheat the engines was failed to work and caused this crash.
