Nürnberger Flugdienst Flight 108
1988 aviation accident in Germany
Nürnberger Flugdienst Flight 108
On the morning of 8 February 1988, Nürnberger Flugdienst Flight 108, a scheduled regional passenger flight from Hannover Airport to Düsseldorf Airport, crashed near Essen, West Germany, with the loss of all 19 passengers and two crew members on board. Shortly before sunrise, the Swearingen SA-227AC Metroliner III operating the flight lost all electrical power after a lightning strike while flying through a cumulonimbus cloud on approach to the airport. Spatially disoriented, the pilots did not realize the aircraft was descending towards the ground until they got below the cloud cover. Witnesses described the aircraft flying in and out of the clouds until it suffered a structural overload and broke apart over the Ruhr River. It is the deadliest aviation accident involving the Swearingen Fairchild Metroliner.
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