General Aviation Clark GA-43

Swissair

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.

Manchurian Air Lines

The single engine airplane crashed for unknown reasons while on final approach to Tokyo-Haneda Airport. Occupant fate unknown. The aircraft was completing a flight from a city located in the northeast part of China.