Accident
On 17 December 1960 the Samaritan was due to fly from Munich-Riem airport in Germany to RAFB Northolt in the United Kingdom with 13 passengers and 7 crew. Shortly after takeoff the aircraft lost power to one of its two Pratt & Whitney R-2800 radial engines. Unable to maintain altitude it hit the 318 feet steeple of St. Paul's Church next to the (vacant) Oktoberfest site in the downtown Ludwigsvorstadt borough. At 2:10 PM it subsequently crashed at Martin-Greif-Straße close to Bayerstraße into a crowded two-section Munich streetcar.
All 13 passengers and 7 crew members on the plane died. 32 people on the ground were killed and 20 were injured. A section of the wing crashed through the roof of a building at Hermann-Lingg-Straße a block away from the main accident site without injuring anybody there. Time Magazine later reported that all 13 passengers on the Convair were holiday-bound University of Maryland students.
Read more about this topic: 1960 Munich Convair 340 Crash
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