Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 10 July 2002 |
| Summary | Crashed on landing |
| Site | Werneuchen Airfield, Germany 52°37′58″N 13°46′12″E / 52.63278°N 13.77000°E |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Saab 2000 |
| Aircraft name | Doldenhorn |
| Operator | Swiss International Air Lines |
| Registration | HB-IZY |
| Flight origin | Basel Airport, Switzerland |
| Destination | Fuhlsbüttel Airport, Hamburg, Germany |
| Occupants | 20 |
| Passengers | 16 |
| Crew | 4 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Injuries | 1 |
| Survivors | 20 |
Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Basel, Switzerland, to Hamburg, Germany. On 10 July 2002, the flight was unable to land at Fuhlsbüttel Airport due to weather. Attempts were made to divert to other airports at Berlin and Eberswalde before the crew decided to land at Werneuchen. On landing, the aircraft struck an earth bank which ripped off all three undercarriage legs, and came to rest on its belly with an engine on fire. One of the sixteen passengers suffered minor injuries. The aircraft was written off.
The investigation into the accident by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) took over eight years to complete. It raised a number of issues, including poor crew resource management, insufficient weather information being passed to the crew of Flight 850 and faulty runway markings at Werneuchen Airfield, where the runway had been reduced in length from 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft), but the runway markings had not been altered to reflect this.