| Status: | |
| Date: | Saturday 13 August 1938 |
| Type: | Savoia-Marchetti S.73 |
| Operator: | CSA Ceskoslovenské Aerolinie |
| Registration: | OK-BAG |
| MSN: | 30040 |
| First flight: | 1937 |
| Engines: | 3 Walter (Bristol) Pegasus II-M2 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | Oberkirch ( Germany)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Praha-Ruzyne International Airport (PRG/LKPR), Czech Republic |
| Strasbourg (unknown airport), France |
Crashed into wooded mountain on approach to Strasbourg in poor weather conditions. Thirteen passengers and four crew were on board. The stewardess, Marie Krentnerová, was the only survivor. Unfortunately she died a day later in a hospital in Offenburg.
The airplane operated on a flight from Prague to Paris via Strasbourg.
Sources:
» Czech accidents web site» Keller, Ladislav. Nehody dopravních letadel v Československu. 2009.
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