ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 27597
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| Date: | Thursday 4 February 1932 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.66 Hercules |
| Owner/operator: | Imperial Airways Ltd |
| Registration: | G-EBMX |
| MSN: | 237 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | 50 mls from Broken Hill, Central Province -
 Zambia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Second production aircraft (G-EBMW was the first); first flown Stag Lane Aerodrome October 1926. First registered 11.12.25 to Imperial Airways Ltd., Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. Named "City of Delhi". Left Croydon on 27.12.27, arriving in Karachi on 8.1.27.
The aircraft encountered a violent storm on a flight from Salisbury and had to make a forced landing in a clearing, which turned out to be a swamp. The wheels were stuck fast and the aircraft was unable to take-off. The crew fortunately had emergency rations and water on board. But it appeared that the pilot was a little uncertain of the location of the swamp into which he had landed, and he gave a wrong compass-bearing over the wireless. Search planes had some difficulty in locating the missing machine.
Eventually they were discovered by the “City of Baghdad”, which had gone out from Broken Hill looking for the lost aircraft. Food was dropped by parachute from the air. On the 1 st of February, a ground party succeeded in cutting its way through the bush to the crew and passengers, guided by smoke from a signal fire. The “City of Delhi” was found stuck up to the axles in the swamp. It necessitated digging a runway, and then dragging the machine bodily out of the swamp.
Repaired and returned to service; withdrawn from service in December 1935, and sold on to the South Africa Air Force as SAAF 262. Finally withdrawn from use and scrapped at Broken Hill in September 1939 to provide parts for the other two examples that the SAAF had in service.
Sources:
1. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-EBMX.pdf
2. http://www.dehavilland.co.za/DH66_Hercules.html
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Hercules
4. https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/de-havilland-dh66-hercules
5. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-E3.html
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p002.htmll
7. Britain's Imperial Air Routes 1918-1939 By Robin Higham
Media:
DeHavilland DH.66 G-EBMX 'City of Dehli'
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Nov-2017 23:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
| 09-Nov-2019 20:42 | harro | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Damage, Narrative] |
| 09-Nov-2019 20:42 | harro | Updated [Phase] |
| 13-Apr-2022 10:31 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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