1961 Malév Hungarian Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain crash
airline accident
On August 6, 1961, a Malév Hungarian Airlines Douglas TS-62 passenger aircraft, registration HA-TSA, crashed during a sightseeing flight in a residential area in the 14th district of Budapest, Hungary, killing all 27 people on board and three others on the ground. It was the first fatal accident in Malév's history.
Flight
One of the services offered by Malév that was very popular at the time were the sightseeing flights over the capital. On Sunday, 6 August 1961, the aircraft made sightseeing flights over Budapest under the command of Captain Róbert Hoffmann. The flight, which ended in an accident, was the fifth flight of the day. It left the airport at 15:44 and flew over Zugló. The flight would have taken 12 minutes. The aircraft (presumably for the amusement of the passengers) performed a wavy line flight, then began a left turn at an altitude of approximately 450 metres, after which, according to the ex-post calculations, it performed a left-right wing roll at 400 metres, with climb and descent. The nose lifted due to the elevator being held too long, the aircraft rolled to the right and then, with a severe loss of speed, turned onto its back and crashed into the apartment building at 224 Lumumba Street in a corkscrew. (The street is now called Róna Street).
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