![]() Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft | |
Accident | |
---|---|
Date | 8 November 1948 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Beechcraft Model 18 |
Registration | F-BGAF |
Flight origin | Paris, Le Bourget Airport |
Destination | London |
Occupants | 6+2 |
Fatalities | 8 |
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.