Date:	Friday 26 August 1966
Time:	17:30
Type:	Piper J3C Cub
Owner/operator:	Aeroclub Suisse, Section Valais
Registration:	HB-OAV
MSN:	12868
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Sitten/Airport -   Switzerland
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	LSGS/SIR
Destination airport:	LSGS/SIR
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Collided with glider shortly after take-off. Famose pilot Herrman Geiger (52).
The landing glider (HB-579) collided with HB-OAV shortly after its lift-of at ca 100ft over the runway.
H. Geiger was heliported to the hospital, where he succumbed to his head-injuries.The student-pilot suffered a concussion, the glider-pilot sufferd multiple fractures and a concussion.

La Stampa 27 January 1966, p1+5
Nouvelle Revue de Lausanne,n199, 27.8.1966 p 1, 6-7, via: https://scriptorium.bcu-lausanne.ch/
Tribune de Lausanne, n 239, 27.8.1966, p1, 3,9, via: https://scriptorium.bcu-lausanne.ch/
Photos of the crash scene, Netherlands National Archive: http://proxy.handle.net/10648/34b6bf15-9208-f99a-dc12-b9c405a612fd
http://proxy.handle.net/10648/904556ff-62bb-3afa-73b3-fe7c8be5ab29

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2009 12:58	XLerate	Added
28-Jul-2014 20:35	TB	Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Source, Damage, Narrative]
10-Feb-2015 17:03	sparrow9	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
11-Feb-2018 18:18	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Other fatalities, Source, Narrative]
11-Jan-2021 10:35	hoekb03	Updated [Source]
21-May-2021 10:08	Hoekb03	Updated [Source]