Einar Paul Albert Muni Lundborg | |
Birth Date: | 5 April 1896 |
Birth Place: | Calcutta, India |
Death Place: | Malmslätt, Sweden |
Placeofburial: | Linköping, Sweden |
Serviceyears: | 1914–1931 |
Rank: | Captain |
Battles: | Finnish Civil War Estonian War of Independence |
Awards: | Cross of Liberty (Estonia) Order of the Cross of Liberty Order of the White Rose Order of St. Vladimir Order of St. Anna Iron Cross |
Einar Paul Albert Muni Lundborg (5 April 1896 – 27 January 1931) was a Swedish aviator.
He was born on 5 April 1896.
In 1928 he rescued Umberto Nobile after Nobile's airship crashed on the ice north of Spitsbergen. He was later promoted to captain in the Swedish Air Force.
Before joining the airforce, Lundborg participated in the Finnish Civil War in 1918 and in the Estonian War of Independence in 1919–1920.[1]
Lundborg was killed during a test flight of the Jaktfalken airplane at Malmslätt in 1931. He was survived by his wife Margareta, née Malmberg (1900–1981). He is buried in Linköping, Sweden.