Paninternational was a West German leisure airline headquartered in Munich with bases at Munich-Riem Airport and Düsseldorf Airport.

History

The airline was founded by Munich-based

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Paneuropa in 1968 as ''Panair'' and started operations on January 1, 1970. After commencing leisure operations within Europe using their new BAC 1-11-515FBs, Paninternational rapidly acquired two

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pre-owned by American Airlines to expand into long-haul flights. It ceased operations already on October 6, 1971 in the aftermath of the accident of Flight 112, which gained large media attention and negative publicity.

Fleet

Paninternational operated the following aircraft:

Accident

* Paninternational Flight 112: On September 6, 1971, a BAC 1-11-515FB (registered D-ALAR) was lost when it crash-landed on a highway shortly after takeoff from Hamburg Airport on its way to

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. 22 passengers and crew were killed in the incident, caused by an unintentional filling of the aircraft's engine water injection system with

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which led to a failure of both engines.

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Defunct airlines of Germany Airlines established in 1968 Airlines disestablished in 1971 1968 establishments in West Germany 1971 disestablishments in West Germany {{Europe-airline-stub

History

Fleet

Accident

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