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Date: | Wednesday 25 October 1933 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.60M Moth |
Owner/operator: | Gerhard Pinner |
Registration: | D-1869 |
MSN: | 1544 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Dübendorf, near Zurich -
Switzerland
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Dübendorf Airport, Zurich, Switzerland (LSMD) |
Destination airport: | Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland (LSZH) |
Narrative:Crashed from about 80-100 meters at Dübendorf, Switzerland. The pilot lost control of the airplane that dove into the ground. The pilot Gerhard Pinner (Berlin) and a one person on the ground, Edwin Salzman, were killed.
Sources:
1.Jenaer Volksblatt 26 October 1933, p1:
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=BUR19331027-01.2.9&srpos=14&e=------193-en-20--1--img-txIN-Pinner-------0----- 2.
https://ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf 3.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh60m-moth-dubendorf-2-killed 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p015.html 5.
https://histaero.ch/PDF/Flugunfaelle_1.pdf 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_D-6.html 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCbendorf_Air_Base#History
History of this aircraft
c/no. 1544: DH.60M Moth [Gipsy II #2022]. Delivered to Alfred Friedrich, Berlin for Rudolf Schien with C of A 2560 issued 5.7.30. Registered in Germany as D-1869 7.30 to Dr Rudolf Schien, Berlin-Staaken, Germany
Registration D-1869 cancelled 30.11.1933 as "destroyed"
Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Feb-2020 20:43 |
TB |
Added |
27-May-2021 19:19 |
Cobar |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Source] |
11-Nov-2023 19:55 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
01-Mar-2024 15:54 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
01-Mar-2024 15:56 |
ASN |
Updated [Narrative] |