Switzerland crash: Twenty dead in WW2 plane crash

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Twenty people have died after a World War Two vintage aircraft crashed into a mountainside in eastern Switzerland, police say.

The plane - a Junkers JU-52 HB-HOT - was carrying 17 passengers and three crew on a sightseeing flight when it took off on Saturday afternoon.
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The aircraft was travelling between Ticino in the south of the country and Dübendorf military airfield near Zurich.

It crashed about 2,540m (8,333 ft) above sea level, on the western side of a 3,000m peak called Piz Segnas.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45076060

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[riversedge]

1. may the families and friends find peace.

[Sherman A1]

2. Sad

I once got a ride on a Ford TriMotor which was a blast.

[Snellius]

3. Surprised BBC left out the hyphen in "WW2 plane crash"

Was the plane from WWII or the crash? Good example of why hyphens matter.

[appalachiablue]

4. Horrible tragedy on a tourist excursion in a vintage WWII airplane.

[Brother Buzz]

5. The heat wave COULD be behind Swiss crash of vintage plane

"High temperatures can affect the performance of an aircraft," Daniel Knecht from the Swiss safety investigation agency said in a press conference held Sunday near the crash site in the Alpine resort of Flims, Switzerland.

While heat itself doesn’t harm the plane, it can affect how it flies, as heat is associated with a thinning of the air. "The aircraft has less power at the same altitude, you can feel it at the start or in a curve," Knecht said in the news conference, as reported by the Swiss German-language newspaper the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/08/05/switzerland-plane-crash-alps/909791002/