1948 Beechcraft Model 18 disappearance

1948 Beechcraft Model 18 disappearance
Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft
Accident
Date8 November 1948 (1948-11-08)
Aircraft
Aircraft typeBeechcraft Model 18
RegistrationF-BGAF
Flight originParis, Le Bourget Airport
DestinationLondon
Occupants6+2
Fatalities8

The 1948 Beechcraft Model 18 disappearance was an event in which, on 8 November 1948, an aircraft flying from Paris to London vanished over the English Channel, carrying pilot René de Narbonne, a radio operator, and six Czechoslovak ice hockey players: Zdeněk Jarkovský, Miloslav Pokorný, Vilibald Šťovík, Zdeněk Švarc, Ladislav Troják, and Karel Stibor.