![]() ![]() The aircraft landed first on the beach before transferring to the airfield at Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais, France. The employee (along with the others on the plane) asserted his belief that Loewenstein had fallen through the plane's rear door and plunged several thousand feet to his death in the English Channel. When he had not reappeared after some time, Loewenstein's secretary went in search of him and discovered that the lavatory was empty, and the aircraft's entrance door was open and flapping in the slipstream. On Loewenstein's Fokker, a door at the rear of the main passenger cabin opened on to a short passage with two doors: the one on the right led to the lavatory, while the one on the left was the aircraft's entrance door. While the aircraft was crossing the English Channel at an altitude of 4,000 ft (1,200 m), Loewenstein went to the rear of the plane to use the lavatory. ![]() On the evening of 4 July 1928, Loewenstein left from Croydon to fly to Brussels on his private aircraft, a Fokker F.VII trimotor, along with six other people. His horses won the 19 runnings of the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris. Loewenstein was an owner of a successful stable of Thoroughbred steeplechase race horses. He partnered with the Canadian-born investment house of Sir James Dunn in several business venture, the duo emerging with more than £1,000,000 profit from their 1920s investment in British Celanese alone. At war's end, he maintained a residence in England where he ran an investment business that made him one of Europe's most powerful financiers. He joined the Belgian armed forces and following the army's retreat, Captain Alfred Loewenstein was sent to London, England where he was placed in charge of military supplies. He offered his government in exile 50 million dollars, interest free, to stabilize the currency in return for the right of printing Belgian francs. Loewenstein established his own banking concern, and was a wealthy man by 1914. Loewenstein was born to Bernard Loewenstein, a German-Jewish banker in Brussels, Belgium. ![]()
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