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__NOTOC__ The Letov Š-32 was an airliner produced in small numbers in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s. It was a trimotor monoplane with a high, cantilever wing, and was designed to meet a requirement by ČSA for a machine to service a night route between
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. It could carry up to six passengers in a fully enclosed cabin which was praised at the time as being "particularly roomy and lofty".''Flight'' 1932, 36 The wings were of all-metal construction, and the fuselage was built up from steel tube and was mostly skinned in metal, other than its very rear part, which, like the empennage, was fabric-covered. ČSA bought and operated five of these machines. On 26 June 1934, one of these (registered OK-ADB) crashed during final approach to
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, killing all three on board, most notably the famous Austrian actor
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