Following the fatal crash of a Junkers Ju-52 plane in the Swiss Alps in 2018, the Ju-Air plane company had dreamed of bringing back the vintage aircraft. But hopes of a revival are fading. For decades, vintage Junkers Ju-52 aircraft (affectionately known as ‘Tante Ju’ or ‘Auntie Ju’ in German) captured the hearts of people taking sightseeing flights in Switzerland. On August 5, 2018, however, a Ju-52 crashed at altitude near Flims in canton Graubünden. All twenty passengers lost their lives in the crash. Since then, the planes have been grounded. Ju-Air, based in Dübendorf, was planning a revival. One of three original planes, the “HB-HOS”, was supposed to take to the skies again. The vintage aircraft had been transferred to the company Junkers-Flugzeugwerke AG, based in canton St Gallen, to make it airworthy again. But nothing came of it, as announced last year. The Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne did not want the Ju-52 and so it is now in a German museum. As the online...
