Rio de Janeiro – Vitória – Belmonte – Salvador – Recife – Bathurst – Sevilla – Stuttgart – Berlin

On February 15, 1936 at 03:52 AM, Rio de Janeiro – Vitória – Belmonte – Salvador – Recife – Bathurst – Sevilla – Stuttgart – Berlin experienced a crash involving Dornier Do J Wal, operated by Deutsche Lufthansa, with the event recorded near Atlantic Ocean All World.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew was performing a mail flight from Rio de Janeiro to Berlin with several intermediate stops. The float plane christened 'Tornado' was catapulted from the deck of the German ship christened 'Westphalen' in the region of Fernando de Noronha around 18:18 (GMT time) on February 14, 1936. Some 9 hours and 34 minutes later, all communications ceased with the crew. SAR operations were conducted by seven countries but no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was ever found. According to the authorities, the crew was flying at a speed of some 200 km/h and some 3 to 5 meters above the surface of the water.

Aircraft reference details include registration D-ADYS, MSN 299.