ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342238
| Date: | Friday 22 July 1938 |
| Time: | 17:38 |
| Type: |  Lockheed 14-H Super Electra |
| Owner/operator: | LOT Polskie Linie Lotnicze |
| Registration: | SP-BNG |
| MSN: | 1422 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1938 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Negrileasa, Stulpicani, Suceava -
 Romania
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Chernovtsy Airport (CWC/UKLN) |
| Bucharest-Baneasa Airport (BBU/LRBS) |
Plane on route Warsaw-Lviv-Czerniowce (Chernovtsy)-Bucharest-Thessaloniki crashed in poor weather (thunderstorm, rain, cloud at low attitude) at 5.38 p.m. local time on hill in the Negrileasa wood (SE of Stulpicani). Eyewitness said the aircraft spinned before crashed into wooden hill.
Commandant of Chernowitz Airport Ionescu, first doctor of child's hospital of Chernovcy Isidore Bodya and composer/aviator Ionel Fernic (37) among the victims.
Probable cause of disaster - unknown; maybe struck by lightning.
Sources:
Gazeta Wyborcza
The Lockheed Twins / P.J. Marsden
Images:
photo (c) National Digital Archives; Negrileasa, Stulpicani, Suceava; 22 July 1938; (publicdomain)
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