D-404

On October 15, 1934 at 12:00 AM, D-404 experienced a crash involving Junkers A.20, operated by Hansa Luftbild, with the event recorded near Königswinter North Rhine-Westphalia.

The flight was categorized as aerial photography and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 50.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 1, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The airplane was engaged in an aerial photography mission, carrying one photographer and one pilot. It crashed in unknown circumstances in Königswinter, some 10 km southeast of Bonn. The pilot Grobe was killed and the photographer Schmidt was seriously injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration D-404, MSN 459, year of manufacture 1924.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 50.6740°, 7.1931°.