Date:	Thursday 25 May 1911
Time:
Type:	ASL Valkyrie Type A
Owner/operator:	Valkyrie School
Registration:	7
MSN:	7
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex
Destination airport:	Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
25.5.1911 ASL Valkyrie Type A No. 7, Valkyrie School: Written off (damaged beyond repair) when stalled attempting gliding descent and dived in from approximately 100 feet (30 metres), at Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, Middlesex. Pilot - Bernard Greenwood Benson (aged 20) - was killed. This accident it believed to be the first fatal aircraft accident at Hendon. According to the Wikipedia entry for this aircraft type:

"Although they were considered tricky to fly, by contemporary standards the Valkyrie monoplane was a successful design. Most of the aircraft produced were used for training and exhibition purposes, principally at the ASL's flight school at Hendon. On 25 May 1911 a six-week-old Valkyrie from the Valkyrie school crashed killing the student pilot Bernard Benson, only the third Briton to be killed in an aircraft accident."

1. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1916.htm
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASL_Valkyrie#Operational_history
3. "Airman Killed at Hendon - Pupil's Fatal Flight". News. The Times (39595). London. 25 May 1911. col C, p. 9.
4. Flight magazine 5 June 1911 page 480 at https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1911/1911%20-%200478.html
5. http://www.sbap.be/museum/hendon/hendon.htm
6. Grace, Terry and Wilson, Maggie; "Airy Somethings ; The Extraordinary life of the Pioneer Aviator Horatio Barber" Amazon, 2019.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Nov-2018 22:21	Dr.John Smith	Added
18-Jan-2020 15:11	Anon.	Updated [Source]