Nelly Diener

{{Short description|Swiss flight attendant}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Nelly Diener|date=August 2022}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Nelly Diener | image = File:Nelly_Diener_cropped.jpg | caption = Diener in front of the Curtis AT-32C Condor | birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|2|5|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1934|7|27|1912|2|5|df=y}} | death_place = Near Tuttlingen, Germany | death_cause = Airplane crash | other_names = {{lang|de|Engel der Lüfte}} ("Angel of the Skies" in English) | occupation = Flight attendant | years_active = 1934 | employer = Swissair | known_for = Being Europe's first female flight attendant }} '''Nelly Hedwig Diener''' (5 February<ref>{{Cite book|title=Nelly Diener. Engel der Lüfte.|last=Marder|first=Pascale|publisher=Bilgerverlag|year=2018|isbn=978-3-03762-076-2|location=Zurich}}</ref> 1912 – 27 July 1934) was a Swiss flight attendant. She was the first female flight attendant in Europe.<ref>{{cite web| url =http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ellene28099s-plan-b/| title =Ellen's plan B| work =Up| date =1 November 2011| access-date =8 September 2016| archive-date =11 April 2019| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190411005112/http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ellene28099s-plan-b/| url-status =dead}}</ref>

Diener started flying for Swissair on 1 May 1934 and became known as the {{lang|de|Engel der Lüfte}} ("Angel of the Skies").<ref>{{cite web | url =https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/27-july-1934/|title=27 July 1934|website=This Day in Aviation| access-date =8 September 2016}}</ref> She died in the 1934 Swissair Tuttlingen accident, along with the other two crew members and nine passengers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nelly-diener.ch/|title=Galery|website=Nelly Diener, Stewardess|access-date=26 June 2018}}</ref>

==See also== *Heinrich Kubis, the first flight attendant of either gender *Ellen Church, the first female flight attendant

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