By: l.garey
- 19th June 2015 at 14:42- Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
Today in the local newspaper was a story about an old propeller in a garage in my village. As I live very close I went to see it. The story is that it was recovered by the grandfather of the present garage owner. He retrieved it, it seems, from the wreck of a LeO H13 of Air-Union that crashed soon after take-off from the harbour at Lausanne on its scheduled service to Evian, just a few minutes away on the other side of Lake Geneva, on 2 August 1930 with the loss of three lives.
The only file I can find on the accident is at: www.swiss-sub-reg.ch/LemhydrLeO.doc
(in French). It points out that the route was introduced in June 1930, and was withdrawn after the accident.
I attach a couple of photos I took today in the garage: I could see no numbers or other marks.
Can anyone tell me which of the (rather few) LeO H13 (presumably one of the even rarer civilian H13a series) this was?
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By: l.garey - 19th June 2015 at 14:42 - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 11:40
Today in the local newspaper was a story about an old propeller in a garage in my village. As I live very close I went to see it. The story is that it was recovered by the grandfather of the present garage owner. He retrieved it, it seems, from the wreck of a LeO H13 of Air-Union that crashed soon after take-off from the harbour at Lausanne on its scheduled service to Evian, just a few minutes away on the other side of Lake Geneva, on 2 August 1930 with the loss of three lives.
The only file I can find on the accident is at: www.swiss-sub-reg.ch/LemhydrLeO.doc
(in French). It points out that the route was introduced in June 1930, and was withdrawn after the accident.
I attach a couple of photos I took today in the garage: I could see no numbers or other marks.
Can anyone tell me which of the (rather few) LeO H13 (presumably one of the even rarer civilian H13a series) this was?