It will be of interest to some to note that the Junkers Ju-52 WWII plane that crashed in Switzerland yesterday was the actual plane that featured in the famous opening sequence of the film “Where Eagles Dare” (not just the same type, but the very same plane itself – call sign HB-HOT).

RIP to the 20 crash victims, and RIP to "Tante-Ju".

Enrico Palazzo

 

Sources:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065207/trivia?item=tr3025945

http://mitteleuropa.1free-host.com/filmlocations_where_eagles_dare.html

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Film:

 

Edited August 5, 20187 yr by Jim Young
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At this early stage, the focus of this tragedy should be on the families and loved ones of the victims of this crash, on first responders who will have the difficult and delicate task in the coming hours of recovering the remains of the victims and on air crash investigators of this event. Let's hope that they will be able to understand and prevent it's causes from reoccurring again. 

bc

 

JuAir is flying again: https://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/graubuenden/knapp-zwei-wochen-nach-ju-52-absturz-mit-20-toten-heute-hebt-die-tante-ju-wieder-ab-id8735263.html?OneS=yes

One of the best war films ever made. I must have watched it at least half a dozen times. Sad that people died of course.