Date:	Friday 3 May 1929
Time:	day
Type:	Vickers 94 Venture Mk 1
Owner/operator:	RAF Home Aircraft Depot, Henlow
Registration:	J7280
MSN:
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Barnet, Hertfordshire -   United Kingdom
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF Eastchurch, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
Destination airport:	RAF Henlow, Bedfordshire
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
Vickers Venture I J7280, RAF Home Aircraft Depot, Henlow; Written off (destroyed) 3/5/1929 when the Passenger was thrown out of the aircraft while low flying. Passenger impacted into the ground near South Mimms, Middlesex. The aircraft crashed near Barnet, Hertfordshire. Of the two persons on board, the passenger was killed, the pilot survived:

AC.1 Richard Frederick Mason (passenger, Service Number 36651, aged 19) killed
Flying Officer Denys Stanley Thomas (pilot) unhurt

Apparently there was an Inquest on 7/5/1929. It was reported in The Times on Wednesday, 8/5/1929, page 18. The pilot had instructions to proceed to Eastchurch. He arrived about 11:30, leaving again at 4:15. Mason was with him all day.

The Coroner (Dr. George Cohen): "Did you have any drink Eastchurch?
F/O Thomas: "Yes, sir, I had some with my lunch.
The Coroner: I want to know particularly what drink you that day, the whole day. Thomas replied that had two glasses of gin at Eastchurch, a pint of beer lunch, and glass of port afterwards."

Flying Officer Thomas was cashiered for being drunk in charge of an aircraft (quote: "Flying Officer Denys Stanley THOMAS is cashiered by sentence of General Court Martial. 1st Aug. 1929" - see links #7 & #8).

1. Andrews, E.N.; Morgan, E.B. (1988). Vickers Aircraft Since 1908 (Second ed.). London: Putnam. ISBN 0-85177-815-1.
2. Mason, Francis K (1994). The British Bomber since 1914. London: Putnam Aeronautical Books. ISBN 0-85177-861-5.
3. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1929.htm
4. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?17392-RAF-fatalities-1929
5. http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?13744-Vickers-Centaur
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Venture
7. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33525/page/5278
8. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33559/page/8026
9. http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/HenlowStAndrewChurchRAF.html

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Jun-2018 16:14	Dr. John Smith	Added