Brussels – Düsseldorf – Berlin

On October 10, 1938 at 11:00 AM, Brussels – Düsseldorf – Berlin experienced a crash involving Savoia-Marchetti SM.73, operated by SABENA - Société Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne, with the event recorded near Soest North Rhine-Westphalia.

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

20 people were known to be on board, 20 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: 16, passenger fatalities: 16, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. On the leg from Düsseldorf to Berlin, while cruising at an altitude of 5,000 feet in fog and rain, the aircraft went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a field. All 20 occupants were killed. Crew: Joseph Vanden Eynde, pilot, André Edmond Moulin, copilot, Josef Baus, radio operator, Charles Deleusse, engineer.

Aircraft reference details include registration OO-AGT, MSN 4, year of manufacture 1936.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 51.5514°, 8.1420°.