Hardy and Mordecai , congratulations to your fine memory !
Here is another victim of the crash: Fernic Ionel ( 1901-1938)
He was first an actor ,then a popular composer of light music ( over 400
tangoes, etc).
His great love was aviation and ...parachute jumping.
After a bad accident, in 1936 he took the job of director of the Pilots
School ARPA in Czernowitz.
In June 1938 he wished very much to go to Bucharest to the funerals of Queen
Maria.
But, the Lot airplane crashed into the dark forests of Negrileasa , near
Stulpicani...
The story is here:
http://www.aviatori.ro/dict_pers.php?sel=F
Regards,
Irene
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All I can contribute is just an account of a 5y+4 months year old
ear-and-eye witness.
My parents and I usually spent a week or two in the summers before 1940 in
Gurahumora, where my father's cousins (the Apter family) lived.
I recall vividly that evening, in the summer of 1938, and that disaster. It
was a typical summertime thunder-and-lightning strom night, and my parents
and I stood at the window of our room, fascinated by the lightnings that lit
the darkblue sky.
Suddenly we heard and saw a little plane in the sky, and after a few seconds
there was another lightning, followed this time by a thunderous explosion.
We saw suddenly people running in the streets and a few carriages passing
quickly in a particular direction.
The next morning we learned from the neighbours that the plane had been
struck by lightning and had crashed in some "nearby" wood. The site of the
catastrophe had become a "celebrity" with many peasants from the villages
around gathering to visit it.
I have no good explaination, but this is my only crystal-clear and vivid
memory of the summers in Gurahumora (which is not too far from Stulpicani).
The scene of the room we were in, as well as of the short period we stood at
the window and the events that we saw and heard, was many years - and still
is - clear and vividly imprinted as a frame before my eyes. I suppose the
tragic catastrophic crash that I witnessed made an indelible impression on
my mind, and the intact disquette is still there, the resolution not reduced
by the nearly 77 years that have passed.
Shavua Tov
Mordecai
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