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Date: | Sunday 15 July 1962 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub |
Owner/operator: | Schweizer Rettungsflugwacht |
Registration: | HB-OPX |
MSN: | 18-5844 |
Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Disentis -
Switzerland
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Disentis |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hit power line, crashed and burned. Pilot Jimmy Gerber killed. Participated in the rescue operation for crashed Aero Lloyd Piaggio P-166.
Sources:
Hamburger Abendblatt 16.7.1962, p14
Passauer Neue Presse 17.7.1962, p3
Swiss Archives/Archivplansuche
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Jul-2012 13:19 |
TB |
Added |
31-Jan-2014 07:11 |
sparrow9 |
Updated [Registration, Source] |