Exclusive for Podcrashers:
It was the most ordinary of flights-- until it wasn't. When Alfred Loewenstein stood up to use his private plane's lavatory, he never returned. Was his disappearance part of his plan-- or someone else's? In this month's Patreon-exclusive layover episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, Stephanie takes us on a journey through surprising behaviors, confusing facts, and questions that haunted investigators and the public through the lens of one of aviation's greatest mysteries.Sources consulted for this story:
- Canberra Times: Result of Autopsy Alive When Hit Water
- Healdsburg Tribune: ALFRED LOEWENSTEIN JUMPS FROM PLANE TO COMMIT SUICIDE
- Aspects of History: The Very Strange Death of Alfred Loewenstein
- Strange Company: Alfred Loewenstein's Final Flight: Review of ""The Man Who Fell From the Sky,"" By William Norris
- Grunge: THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF ALFRED LOEWENSTEIN
- All That's Interesting: Inside The Mysterious Death Of Alfred Loewenstein, The Multimillionaire Who ‘Fell’ Out Of His Own Plane
- Aviation Safety Network: Alfred Loewenstein
- Medium: How Did Alfred Loewenstein Fall Out of a Plane?
- Project Gutenberg: Who Travels Alone: The Life and Death of Alfred Loewenstein
- Daily Mail: Own the home of the man who fell from the sky for £1m
Credits:
Written and produced by: Shelly Price and Stephanie HubkaDirected and engineered at: Snow Monster Studios
Sound editor: Podcast Engineers
Producer: Adam Hubka
Music by: Mike Dunn
Loewenstein boards his plane on the day of his disappearance. Source: Daily Mail
Alfred Loewenstein. Source: All That's Interesting
Diagram of the configuration of Loewenstein's Fokker Tri-Motor. Source: All That's Interesting
