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Date: | Sunday 30 January 1955 |
Time: | 15:05 |
Type: | SAI KZ VII Lærke |
Owner/operator: | Aero-Expreß Bayrischer Flugdienst-GmbH |
Registration: | HB-EPW |
MSN: | 190 |
Year of manufacture: | 1951 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Grasbrunn -
Germany
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | München-Riem (13:26) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Flew into power cable while attempting emergency landing. Lack of fuel might have been a factor for the desicion for the emergency landing. Sudden fog during the 30 min sightseeing flight disabled a return to the airport. Swiss pilot Walter Thomi ignored the advice to land at an alternative airport.
Sources:
Passauer Neue Presse 1 February 1955, p6
Swiss Archives Archivplansuche
Luftfahrt Bundesamt AZ 842-V1/55, issued 9 May 1955
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Jan-2018 21:16 |
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