On 4 July 1928, one of the richest men in the world vanished mid-flight.

Alfred Loewenstein, a Belgian financier with vast international interests, boarded a private aircraft travelling from Croydon to Brussels. Somewhere over the English Channel, he left his seat, entered a small washroom, and was never seen alive again.

Moments later, he was gone.

In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we examine the baffling disappearance of Alfred Loewenstein. We explore the layout of the aircraft, the timeline of the flight, the discovery of his body weeks later, and the competing explanations that range from tragic accident to carefully staged suicide, and even murder.

How does a man simply fall from a plane without anyone noticing? And why did the official explanation leave so many unanswered questions?

🎧 Listen now to one of aviation history's strangest unsolved mysteries.

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The Disappearance of Alfred Loewenstein