ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342368
| Date: | Friday 28 February 1936 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-2-115B |
| Owner/operator: | Swissair |
| Registration: | HB-ITI |
| MSN: | 1321/F4 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1934 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Zürich-Dübendorf Airport -
 Switzerland
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Zürich-Dübendorf Airport |
| London-Croydon Airport (-/-) |
A DC-2 operated by Swissair sustained substantial damage in a takeoff accident at Zürich-Dübendorf Airport, Switzerland.
The airplane took off on a passenger flight to London but failed to become airborne. The airplane crossed a road at the end of the runway and came to rest in a field.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Wrong propeller setting.
Sources:
Tribune de Lausanne 29-2-1936
Photo of wreckage
ETH-Bibliothek
Berner Zeitung 29-2-2012
Location
Images:
photo (c) ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv; Zürich-Dübendorf Airport; 28 February 1936; (CC:by-sa)
photo (c) ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Swissair; Zürich-Dübendorf Airport; 28 February 1936; (CC:by-sa)
photo (c) ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Swissair; Zürich-Dübendorf Airport; 28 February 1936; (CC:by-sa)
photo (c) ANP Foundation (CC:by-nc-nd)
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