LOT Polish Airlines crash in Romania (1938)
Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra · Aircraft collision with terrain
From Chernivtsi to Bucharest
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 14 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra
- Aircraft type
- Lockheed Model 14
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- SP-BNG
- Operator
- LOT Polish Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 14
- Route
- From ChernivtsiTo Bucharest
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The LOT Polish Airlines crash in Romania (1938) – the crash of a LOT Polish Airlines Lockheed L-14H passenger aircraft, flying from Romanian Chernivtsi to Bucharest, on 22 July 1938 at 17.52 near the village of Găinești, south of the locality of Gura Humorului, in the Bukovina area of the then Kingdom of Romania.
Investigation and cause
Investigation of the causes
The investigation of the causes of the accident was undertaken by a Polish-Romanian aviation commission. The completion of its work was prevented by the outbreak of World War II and the loss of the investigation documents during it. Some accident experts pointed to atmospheric conditions (a lightning strike); the most probable is the chafing through of the elevator cable and loss of controllability – as indicated by the unusual trace of the surviving record on the on-board barograph.
It is accepted that the causes of the crash have not been fully explained.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Polish Wikipedia article “Katastrofa samolotu PLL LOT w Rumunii (1938)” (revision 80481700, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Polish Wikipedia article: Katastrofa samolotu PLL LOT w Rumunii (1938)
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 80481700 · 2026-08-20 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q25413045
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pl Wikipedia article "Katastrofa samolotu PLL LOT w Rumunii (1938)" (page 3540018, revision 80481700), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Polish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.