Nelly Hedwig Diener (5 February 1912 – 27 July 1934) was a Swiss flight attendant. She was the first female flight attendant in Europe.
Diener started flying for
Swissair
Swissair AG/ S.A. (German: Schweizerische Luftverkehr-AG; French: S.A. Suisse pour la Navigation Aérienne) was the national airline of Switzerland between its founding in 1931 and bankruptcy in 2002.
It was formed from a merger between Bal ...
on 1 May 1934 and became known as the ("Angel of the Skies"). She died in the
1934 Swissair Tuttlingen accident
On 27 July 1934, a Swissair Curtiss AT-32C Condor II passenger aircraft crashed near Tuttlingen, Germany, while flying through a thunderstorm. All 12 people on board were killed. It was the worst air crash in 1934 and Swissair's first aviation ...
, along with the other two crew members and nine passengers.
See also
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Ellen Church
Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 – August 22, 1965) was the first female flight attendant. A trained nurse and pilot, Church wanted to pilot commercial aircraft, but those jobs were not open to women. Still wanting to fly, Church successf ...
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Heinrich Kubis
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Flight attendants
Swissair
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Germany
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1934
1912 births
1934 deaths
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