Switzerland crash: Twenty dead in WW2 plane crash

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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/