Non RV related: "Saint-Louis memory flight" plane down

[swisseagle]

Dear Friends

Sad news from the beginning of the Saint-Lois memory flight!
Planed flight

The Plane went down in the City of Basel/Switzerland, the pilot Hans Georg Schmid died, a few houses burned out, a few peple gets lightly hurt, a Kindergarden group gets a shock, but all ok.

Newspaper (in german Language)

Hans Georg Schmid, the Millenium Pilot (?Millennium Flight - Twice Around the World?) had planed to fly into the opposide direction as Lindberg, nonstop to Oshkosh ... he is on his last flight now ...

We fly in our memorys with you ...

[swisseagle]

Here I found Informations in english language:

Swissinfo

Dominik