Princess Johanna Marina Eleoore of Hesse was orphaned at the age of fourteen months, when her family was killed in a plane crash, when the plane they were in hit what?
Sabena OO-AUB Ostend crash Sabena OO-AUB was a Junkers Ju 52 airliner owned by Belgian airline Sabena, operating as a scheduled international passenger flight from Cologne, Germany, to London, England, which crashed near Ostend, Belgium, on 16 November 1937. The flight was scheduled to stop at Brussels, but bad weather forced the pilot to continue to Ostend. Conditions were little better at Ostend, but the aircraft hit a factory chimney while circling to land at Stene Airport.
Aeroflot Flight 2230 Aeroflot Flight 2230 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) to Tashkent that crashed after takeoff on 16 November 1967, killing all 107 people aboard (including twelve children). The exact cause of the accident remains unknown. At the time it was the deadliest aviation accident in the Russian SFSR and the worst accident involving the Il-18.