Airbus A320 crash, Sep 14, 1993 (2 killed), Warsaw-Okęcie...
Airbus A320 accident on September 14, 1993 near Warsaw-Okęcie-Frederic Chopin, Masovian Voivodeship (Mazowieckie), Poland with 2 fatalities. Cause:...
- Date: September 14, 1993
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Location: Warsaw-Okęcie-Frederic Chopin, Masovian Voivodeship (Mazowieckie), Poland
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Crew decisions taken after a windshear warning, aircraft design features that limited the braking systems, and insufficient manual information on the increase in landing distance. The commission also cited the frontal wind variation and heavy rain.
A Lufthansa A320 from Frankfurt landed at Warsaw in thunderstorms with windshear and heavy rain. It touched down long and the braking and spoilers could not stop it on the wet runway. It overran an embankment, lost its left engine and burned. One passenger and the captain were killed, and about 51 others were seriously injured.