In 1928, Belgian financier Alfred Loewenstein fell to his loss of life from a non-public airplane over the English Channel. The way it occurred has by no means been defined. On this week’s episode of the Futility Closet podcast, we’ll describe the weird incident, which has been referred to as “one of many strangest fatalities within the historical past of economic aviation.”
We’ll additionally take into account whether or not individuals might be eaten by pythons and puzzle over an enigmatic horseman.