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| Date: | Sunday 21 May 1961 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Temco GC-1B Swift |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | D-EJID |
| MSN: | 3537 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Ellen (Niederzier) -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Bonn-Hanglelar |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
A "two-seater Piper" crashed from 200 meters and burnt during a thunderstorm. Occupants (37/37). (1) 65 accidents in Germany in June 1961: six killed and three airplane and four gliders destroyed.
Sources:
Passauer Neue Presse 23 May 1961, p3
(1) Hamburger Abendblatt 22 June 1961
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Dec-2015 15:44 | TB | Added |
| 18-Apr-2025 13:34 | TB | Updated [Date, Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
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