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| Date: | Wednesday 7 August 1963 |
| Time: | 19:45 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub |
| Owner/operator: | Alpar |
| Registration: | HB-ORK |
| MSN: | 18-7035 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Kanderfirn, BE -
 Switzerland
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Kanderfirn, BE |
| Bern | |
| Investigating agency: | BFU Switz. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Overran runway and crashed due to icing on the wings.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
BFU Switzerland n
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 13 August 1973 | HB-ORK | Häutligen, BE | |
unk | ||
| 18 January 2003 | HB-ORK | private | 0 | Rosa Blanche, VS | |
w/o |
| 19 September 2025 | HB-ORK | Starbase AG | 1 | Lake Zug, near Cham, ZG | |
w/o |
| Loss of control | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Jul-2024 06:47 | ASN | Added |
| 14-Jan-2025 13:21 | Cobar | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
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