Warsaw – Lviv – Chernivtsi – Bucharest – Thessaloniki – Athens

On July 22, 1938 at 05:38 PM, Warsaw – Lviv – Chernivtsi – Bucharest – Thessaloniki – Athens experienced a crash involving Lockheed 14 Super Electra, operated by LOT Polish Airlines - Polskie Linie Lotnicze, with the event recorded near G<U+04D1>ine<U+0219>ti Suceava.

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

14 people were known to be on board, 14 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: 12, passenger fatalities: 12, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. Less than 30 minutes after its departure from Chernivtsi Airport, while cruising in the region of Suceava, north part of Romania, the crew encountered very bad weather conditions. Aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a hilly and wooded area located near the village of G<U+04D1>ine<U+0219>ti, some 35 km southwest of Suceava. All 14 occupants were killed, among them the Romanian composer and aviator Ionel Fernic.

Aircraft reference details include registration SP-BNG, MSN 1432, year of manufacture 1938.