D-IGVN
We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
Safety history
- February 24, 1985Accident
The crew was returning to Germany following an expedition in the South Pole (Antarctica). The aircraft departed Dakar on a leg to Lanzarote, and was following another Dornier DO228 from the same Alfred Wegener Institute christened Polar 2 that was flying higher than Polar 3. En route, the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile and crashed in a desert area located south of Dakhla. All three crew members were killed. Probable cause (official findings): Shot down by a surface-to-air mi