1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash who was not on board the aircraft. She was adopted by her uncle Louis in early 1938. Johanna died of meningitis in 1939. With the death of the childless Prince Louis in 1968, the male line of the Hesse and by Rhine became extinct. 1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash On 16 November 1937 a Junkers Ju 52/3m owned by Belgian airline SABENA, operating as a scheduled international passenger flight from Cologne, Germany, to London, England, crashed near Ostend, Belgium. The aircraft hit a tall factory chimney while attempting to land at Steene aerodrome near Ostend, Belgium. The accident
Airline teletype system although it is now owned by Rockwell Collins. In 1949, the Société Internationale de Télécommunication Aeronautique (SITA) was formed as a cooperative by 11 airlines: Air France, KLM, Sabena, Swissair, TWA, British European Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation, British South American Airways, Swedish AB Aerotransport, Danish Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S, and Norwegian Det Norske Luftfartselskap. Their aim was to enable airlines to be able to use the existing communications facilities in the most efficient manner. Morse code was the general means of relaying information between air communications stations prior to World War II. Generally, it was only necessary to relay