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Crash of a Fokker F9D in Bratislava

Date & Time: Sep 11, 1937 at 0630 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
OK-AFF
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Bratislava – Prague
MSN:
15
YOM:
1935
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
0
Circumstances:
Shortly after takeoff from Bratislava-Vajnory Airport, one of the engine fired. The crew attempted an emergency landing in a field located past the runway end. While both occupants were uninjured, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
Probable cause:
Engine fire after liftoff.

Crash of a Caproni Ca.33/450 in Bratislava: 4 killed

Date & Time: May 4, 1919 at 1100 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
11495
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Udine - Bratislava
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
3
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
1
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
4
Circumstances:
The aircraft departed Campoformido Airport, Udine, for an official but secret flight to Bratislava, Slovakia. On approach to Ivanka Airport, while flying at an altitude between 50 and 80 metres, the aircraft banked left, nosed down and crashed in an open field located in Vajnory, some 4 km north of the airfield, bursting into flames. All four occupants were killed.
Crew:
Lt Giotto Mancinelli-Scotti, pilot,
Sgt Umberto Merlini, pilot,
Gabriele Aggiusti, radionavigator.
Passenger:
General Milan Rastislav Štefánik.
The international airport of Bratislava will be later renamed Bratislava-Ivanka-Milan Rastislav Štefánik.