page_title: 2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash
section_title: Accident
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash / Accident
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Relief Positionskarte der Schweiz. English: Blank physical map of Switzerland, for geo-location purpose. Français&#160;: Carte physique vierge de la Suisse, destinée à la géolocalisation. Equirectangular projection, WGS84 datum Standard meridian: 008° 15' E Central parallel: 46° 49' 30" N Geographic limits of the map: Left: 005° 48' E Right: 010° 42' E Top: 47° 54' N Bottom: 45° 45' N
context_page_description: On 4 August 2018, a Junkers Ju 52 passenger aircraft operated by Ju-Air crashed near Piz Segnas, Switzerland, while en route from Locarno to Dübendorf. All 20 people on board were killed.
  It was the first fatal crash of a Ju-Air aircraft since the company began operations in 1982. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
context_section_description: The aircraft was flying from Locarno Airport to Dübendorf Air Base, on the return leg of a two-day trip. The weather was unseasonably warm with choppy winds. At 16:56 local time on 4 August (14:56 UTC), the Junkers crashed into Piz Segnas mountain, at an elevation of 2,540 metres (8,330 ft).
  Swiss authorities stated that the plane appeared to have crashed almost vertically and at high speed. A witness at nearby Segnas Pass saw the Junkers approaching from the south and fly by the Martinsloch, a distinctive 18-metre-wide (60 ft) breakthrough, or hole, in the Tschingelhörner mountain ridge, next to the pass. Then, instead of flying over the ridge, the aircraft made a sharp turn, dived vertically and crashed onto the plateau below. Around 10 minutes before the crash, another witness had observed the Ju 52 suddenly banking sharply to the left and losing altitude, before increasing engine power and recovering to normal flight.
  The aircraft was carrying three crew and seventeen passengers, all of them Swiss apart from an Austrian couple and their son. Nine of the people aboard were women and eleven were men.
caption: Location of the crash site between the departure airport (Locarno) and the intended destination (Dübendorf)
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