Paninternational

Paninternational

Paninternational was a West German airline with bases at Munich-Riem Airport and Düsseldorf International Airport which operated between 1968 and 1971. It had a fleet of two Boeing 707-120s and four BAC 1-11-500s. One of the latter was lost in 1971 in the crash of Paninternational Flight 112....

 Flight 112 was a BAC One-Eleven

BAC One-Eleven

The British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven, also known as the BAC-111, BAC-1-11 or BAC 1-11, was a British short-range jet airliner of the 1960s and 1970s...

 that crashed in Germany on 6 September 1971 while attempting to land on an Autobahn following the failure of both engines. The accident killed 22 passengers and crew out of 121 on board.

Accident

Paninternational Flight 112 took off from Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport

Hamburg Airport , also known as Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport , is an international airport serving Hamburg, Germany.It originally covered . Since then, the site has grown more than tenfold to . The main apron covers . The airport is north of the centre of the city of Hamburg in the Fuhlsbüttel...

 in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

, on a flight to Málaga Airport

Málaga Airport

Málaga Airport , also known as Malaga Costa Del Sol Airport and Pablo Ruiz Picasso Airport, is the fourth busiest airport in Spain after Madrid-Barajas, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. It is an important airport for Spanish tourism as it is the main international airport serving the Costa Del Sol....

 in Málaga

Málaga

Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...

, Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, with 115 passengers and six crew on board. After the take-off both engines failed and the pilots decided to make an emergency landing on a highway, Bundesautobahn 7 (also part of European route E45

European route E45

The European route E 45 goes between Sweden and Italy, through Denmark, Germany and Austria. With a length of about , it is the longest north-south European route...

), about 4.5 km (3 mi) from Hamburg Airport.. During the landing the aircraft collided with a bridge, causing both wings to shear off, and caught fire. The accident killed 21 passengers and one crew member.

Cause

The cause of the accident was that the tank for the water-injection engine thrust-augmentation system

Water injection (engines)

In internal combustion engines, water injection, also known as anti-detonant injection, is spraying water into the cylinder or incoming fuel-air mixture to cool the combustion chambers of the engine, allowing for greater compression ratios and largely eliminating the problem of engine knocking...

 had inadvertently been filled with jet fuel

Jet fuel

Jet fuel is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines. It is clear to straw-colored in appearance. The most commonly used fuels for commercial aviation are Jet A and Jet A-1 which are produced to a standardized international specification...

instead of water.