Quote Originally Posted by Gil Boyd View Post
Something strange about that one. Three engines all fully serviced a couple of weeks ago and the plane takes a nose dive from a great height.
Sounds like the engines were starved of oxygen, could he have been too high?
Lots of people pointing fingers at high density altitude issues...........the Ju-52 was one of 3 fatal accidents in Switzerlandicon within a few days where high density altitude was possibly a contributing factor, with pilots being caught out by the heatwave across Europe.....and mountain flying close to max aircraft performance margins leaves little very little room for errors, even for very experienced crews.

Awful crash.

The crashed Ju-52 was the one they used for filming the scenes in Where Eagles Dare.