The photographs clearly show a wrecked DC-2 in Russian markings and with the letters ASK still faintly visible on the rear fuselage. They were taken at Spilve airfield, Riga in Latvia on the day of the invasion in July 1941 after a Luftwaffe attack had destroyed many Russian aircraft on the ground, two Ju 88s appear in the background. This confirms that SP-ASK did indeed escape to Latvia in 1939 but we are still left with the mystery of which LOT DC-2 crashed on 20.8.38.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Douglas DC-1 / DC-2 / C-32 / C-39 - СШАUSA - 1933Junkers Ju.88 - ГерманияGermany - 1936

More details of the "ProFaro a Colon" flight casualties of 29.12.37 appear below but this shows the survivor of the long-distance epic the Curtiss-Wright CW-19R11 "Colon" c/n A-19-975. After being displayed at San Isidro air base it was moved to the Museum of Dominican Man at Santo Domingo, Dominica where this photograph was taken in 1982.
29.12.37 The goodwill flight around South America, to raise money for a monument to Christopher Columbus, leaving from Havana on 10.11.37. "Santa Maria", probably a Stinson SR-9D, owned by the Cuban Pan-American Columbus Society and flown by Lt Antonio Menendez y Pelaez, mechanic Manuel Naranjo, journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. "Pinta" may also have been a Stinson of the Cuban Army with Lt Alfredo Jimenez, mechanic Pedro Castillo. "Nina" possibly Howard DGA-8 of Cuban Navy, Lt Feliciano Risech, mechanic Roberto Medina. All seven were killed.
29.12.37 The four aircraft on the ProFaro a Colon flight of 1937 were: 1) Curtiss Wright CW-19R11 c/n A-19-975 of the Cuerpo de Aviacion Dominicana (see photo) which was the sole survivor; 2) Howard DGA-15/8A serial 51 "The Nina" of the Cuban Navy; 3) Stinson SR-9D Reliant of the Sociedad Colombista Panamericana, possibly a Cuban civil registered machine; 4) Stinson SR-9D Reliant No.104 of the Cuban Army. Presumably the third aircraft above was "Santa Maria" and the fourth "The Pinta", thus completing the details given on page 90/26.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Curtiss-Wright CW-19 Sparrow - СШАUSA - 1935