On the 4 July 1928, a Fokker Trimotor took off from Croydon airport to the south of London, in the UK. The light passenger aircraft’s destination was Brussels, and seven people were onboard. Six would make it to their destination.
En-route, somewhere over the Channel, one of the passengers disappeared. But what really made the headlines was that the missing man was millionaire financier Alfred Loewenstein, the third in the world.
The sudden disappearance of a millionaire from his private plane may seem to you like the storyline of a detective novel. However the man known as “The Belgian Croesus” by the media, after the immensely rich ancient ruler of Lydia, somehow vanished from the small , and was never seen alive again.
