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Darmstadt District

Altkönig Plane Crash Memorial

Darmstadt District

Altkönig Plane Crash Memorial

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Altkönig Plane Crash Memorial

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Location: Kronberg, Hochtaunuskreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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Wolfram/Ts. 🇺🇦

March 21, 2021

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For those interested: The memorial stone here commemorates the plane crash at this point on the southern slope of the Altkönig on January 22nd, 1971, in which all six occupants died. Source and further information:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugunfall_auf_dem_Altk%C3%B6nig_(1971)?oldformat=true

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Nadja

October 4, 2017

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In a plane crash on the Altkönig on January 22, 1971 aboard a Beechcraft King Air 90 all six inmates were killed.

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Peter

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In the crash, the mayor of Wattenscheid, Erwin Topp, the city director Georg Schmitz, the municipal building officer Kurt Wille, the authorized signatory of the construction company Josef Peckelsen and the two pilots of the machine, Alfred Krummlauf and Rolf Brennholt, were killed.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugzeugabsturz_auf_dem_Altk%C3%B6nig_(1971)

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Elevation 640 m

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