Three engines and one spy
The Mystery of the SABENA Cologne to Brussels flight by Gianclaudio Polidori (translated by Leonardo Pavese) On January 4, 1937, a Belgian SABENA’s Savoia Marchetti S.73 trimotor, registered OO-AGP, took off from Cologne, Germany, with destination Brussels, Belgium. There were ten passengers onboard, besides the crew. After about one hour flight time, the aircraft suffered an almost simultaneous failure of all three engines that forced the pilots to make an emergency landing. The S.73 after the emergency landing The official report showed nobody died or was injured, and stated that the aircraft was being repaired. But the damage was clearly considerable, to the point that the airplane never returned in service, and, on May 14, 1940, it was finally demolished to prevent it from being seized by the invading German forces. (According to other sources though, the S.73 was capt...