| Date: | Friday 27 July 1934 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Type: | Curtiss AT-32C Condor II |
| Owner/operator: | Swissair |
| Registration: | CH-170 |
| MSN: | 53 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1934 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Wurmlingen/Tuttlingen -
Germany
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Zürich-Dübendorf Airport |
| Destination airport: | Stuttgart-Böblingen Airport |
Narrative:Crashed after only three months in service. The port inter-wing strut failed in heavy turbulence, causing separation of the engine and part of the lower wing.
The airplane operated on the flight Zürich-Stuttgart-Leipzig-Berlin.
The three crew members and the nine passengers died. The aircraft fell in a forest from a height of 3,000 meters and burned.
Sources:
Swissair Information website A Survey of Serious Aircraft Accidents Involving Fatigue Fracture. Volume 1. Fixed-Wing Aircraft / NRC Canada, 1983
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