The Bethke brothers tape (partially found footage of flying rescue; 1989)

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A screenshot of the partially found footage.

Status: Partially Lost


Creating Bethke brothers' incredible flying rescue over the Berlin Wall - original footage is the real 1989 footage of the successful Egbert Bethke flying rescue from East Germany that was organised and shot by his two older brothers - Ingo and Holger Bethke. The video features two lightweight airplanes (a camera is attached to one of them) flying over the Berlin wall, landing of one of the planes on a park in East Berlin and the successful fly-away . According to History Channel, the camera was switched on at 4:22 AM and switched off at at 4:38 AM.


Presence in media and online

The footage was partially shown on many different TV shows and documentary films, however, the full video of the flight is unable to be found


Gallery

Description of the escape and partially shown footage by History channel (starts at 1:17:04 )

Unknown documentary featuring some of the footage (starts at 0:01:57 )

Germany TV-Show 'Na siehste' showcasing this escape to the general public