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World War II vintage plane crash leaves 22 dead
Updated On: 06 August, 2018 08:32 AM IST | Geneva | Agencies
The Junker plane, which can carry up to 17 passengers and three crew, crashed into the Piz Segnas mountain Saturday, at an altitude of around 2,500 metres
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The wreckage of the Junkers JU52 aircraft in Flims. Pic/AFP
Up to 20 people are feared dead after a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, local reports said yesterday. The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a collectors' item, belongs to JU-Air, a company with links to the Swiss air force, the ATS news agency reported. The Junker plane, which can carry up to 17 passengers and three crew, crashed into the Piz Segnas mountain Saturday, at an altitude of around 2,500 metres.
The plane was full for the flight, suggesting that up to 20 people may be dead. The flight had been due to land at the Duebendorf military airfield near Zurich on Saturday afternoon. A witness who was on the mountainside at the time of the crash said, "The plane turned 180 degrees to the south and fell to the ground like a stone." JU-Air said that its flight operations were suspended.
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