CRASH DURING TEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 10

CRASH DURING TEST

GIANT JUNKER PLANE

BROKE UP DURING FLIGHT

THE PILOT KILLED

/ (United I'res3 Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) AMSTERDAM, February 11. The giant new Junker four-engiried aeroplane GU9O, known as Grosse Dessauer, crashed on a test flight at Nuremberg after breaking up in thes air. The pilot was killed, but the other tw.o members of the crew, were saved by jumping with parachutes. The Grosse Dessauer was built by tha Junkers Aircraft Co., Dessau, Germany,, one of the oldest and largest aero-plane-building companies in the world. It was a four-engincd low-wing ' monoplane, similar in many respects to the American Douglas, even to having Wright Cyclone motors. There was accommodation for 40 passengers in flva compartments seating eight each, with a crew of a captain, a first officer, a wireless officer, and a steward. The machine had a cruising speed of just over 200 miles an hour and a range of 1000 miles. Junkers commercial aeroplanes are in use all over the world, and military types are used extensively in the equipment of the German air force.