General Air Flight 005
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Unexplained
From Helgoland-Düne Airport (HGL) to Bremen Airport (BRE)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 5
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-6
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- D-IDHC
- Operator
- General Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Helgoland-Düne Airport (HGL)To Bremen Airport (BRE)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
General Air Flight 005 crashed on 27 May 1972 shortly after taking off from Heligoland-Düne Airfield.
Sequence of events
At 18:12 the General Air Twin Otter took off from Heligoland-Düne Airfield, but instead of turning into the planned right turn, the aircraft made a sharp 180° left turn at a height of about 60 metres and crashed into the ground at an angle of 70°. Six people died in the crash, including the two pilots, and two more later in hospital.
Cause of the accident
The Twin Otter was not equipped with flight recorders; this made the investigation more difficult. After examination of the wreckage, it was determined that the left engine had produced less thrust than the right.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “General-Air-Flug 005” (revision 269735819, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: General-Air-Flug 005
- Article
- General-Air-Flug 005
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 269735819 · 2026-08-17 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q17353588
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "General-Air-Flug 005" (page 8310266, revision 269735819), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.