Albina - Macapá

On March 17, 1923 at 12:00 AM, Albina - Macapá experienced a crash involving Junkers F.13, operated by Junkers Flugzeug %26 Motorenwerke, with the event recorded near Oiapoque Amapá.

The flight was categorized as demonstration and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river 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: 2, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. The crew was conducting flights in South America to promote the sale of the Junkers F.13 to local operators. The aircraft departed Albina Airport, Suriname, bound to Macapá, Brazil. Just after passing the border between French Guyana and Brazil, the crew encountered poor weather conditions and elected to make an emergency landing on the Oiapoque River, near Oiapoque. In unknown circumstances, the aircraft crashed in the river and was damaged beyond repair. While the pilot Drewsky was injured, the mechanic Thill was killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration D-217, MSN 633, year of manufacture 1922.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 3.8432°, -51.8351°.