Frankfurt - Basel

On April 30, 1936 at 12:00 AM, Frankfurt - Basel experienced a crash involving General Aviation Clark GA-43, operated by Swissair, with the event recorded near Küssnacht Schwyz.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was performing a cargo flight from Frankfurt to Basel. By night and in unfavorable weather conditions, the crew overflew Basel without locating the airport and continued to the southeast, in direction to the center of Switzerland. Dozen minutes later, the single engine aircraft hit the west slope of the Mt Rigi (1,798 meters high) located some 12 km east of Lucern, in the canton of Schwyz. Both crew were killed. Crew: Ernst Gerber, pilot, Arthur Müller, radio navigator.

Aircraft reference details include registration HB-ITU, MSN 2204, year of manufacture 1935.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 47.0838°, 8.4386°.