ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 338243
| Date: | Friday 20 April 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju-52/3m |
| Owner/operator: | Deutsche Lufthansa |
| Registration: | D-ANAJ |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 20 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Glienig/Steinreich -
 Germany
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Berlin-Tempelhof Airport (THF/EDBB) |
| Praha-Ruzyne International Airport (PRG/LKPR) |
Shot down by Soviet Forces during an evacuation flight. The aircraft crashed into forest at Glienig (Dahme/Spreewald). Three crew and seventeen passengers (one woman) on board. Two passengers survived. Among those killed was Hans Steinhoff (63, a German film director).
This was the last Lufthansa flight to leave Berlin before the end of World War II. It was destined for Enns with an intermediate stop in Prague.
Sources:
Abschuss Ju 52 am 20. April 1945
Images:
photo (c) Fritz; Glienig/Steinreich
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