ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 25854
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Date: | Wednesday 25 January 1939 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.85 Leopard Moth |
Owner/operator: | Wilson Airways |
Registration: | VP-KBP |
MSN: | 7107 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Iringa Airport, Iringa, Tanganyika -
Tanzania
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Iringa Ariport, Iringa, Tanganyika (IRI/HTIR) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:c/no 7107: To Wilson Airways, Kenya with C of A 4973 issued 25.7.35. Registered as VP-KBP 5.8.35 to Wilson Airways Ltd, Nairobi
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 25.1.39: crashed into a hedge on take off from Iringa Airport, Iringa, Tanganyika (now Tanzania). Of the three persons on board (pilot and two passengers) one passenger was seriously injured.
Sources:
1.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh85-leopard-moth-iringa 2.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/vp-kaa.pdf 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iringa_Airport 4.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p071.html 5. Encyclopedia of African Airlines By Ben R. Guttery (page 104)
6.
http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/93-register-other 7.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_2009.pdf 8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iringa_Airport Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
17-Mar-2013 23:56 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
17-Mar-2013 23:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
31-Oct-2017 22:10 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
06-May-2022 05:20 |
Lipatov Sergey |
Updated [Source] |
09-Oct-2022 15:22 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative, Category] |
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