ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 27699
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| Date: | Wednesday 22 January 1936 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.84 Dragon |
| Owner/operator: | Commercial Air Hire |
| Registration: | G-ACCR |
| MSN: | 6011 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Beach near Ault Lighthouse, Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime, Normandy -
 France
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Le Bourget Airfield, Paris, France (LBG/LFPB) |
| Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey (EGCR) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no 6011 (Gipsy Major #5126/5127): Registered as G-ACCR [C of R 4085] 28.2.33 to Capt William Arthur Rollason, of Rollason Aviation Co Ltd, Croydon. C of A 3846 issued 3.4.33 and operated by Rollason on British Hospitals Air Pageants tour 4.33-10.33. Delivered 10.33 to (Rollason director) Robert Thomas Boyd, t/a Barnstaple & North Devon Flying Club, Heanton Court, Barnstaple, Devon.
Crashed at West Manley, Tiverton, Devon 4.2.34; repaired. Damaged on third landing at Lundy Island 3.6.34. Rebuilt and sold 8.34 to Commercial Air Hire Ltd, Croydon; operated by (associate) Air Dispatch Ltd. Hired 8.34 (briefly) to Jersey Airways Ltd. Registered [C of R 5497] 13.12.34 to Doris Godley; director/nominee of Commercial Air Hire Ltd, Croydon. Operated 4.35 by Inner Circle Air Lines; Heston-Croydon service. Converted to air ambulance 8.35.
Struck by lightning en route Le Bourget-Croydon at night and forced landed off beach near beach near Ault Lighthouse, Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime Department, Normandy, France 22.1.36 and wrecked by tide. All six occupants, five passengers and a pilot, were rescued while the aircraft sunk and was lost.
According to one source (see link #8), "the aircraft was carrying £80,000 in gold bullion, when static electricity, caused by a hail storm, forced a landing into shallow water". (£80,000 in 1936 would be equivalent to over £5 million at 2016 prices).
Registration G-ACCR cancelled by the Air Ministry 7.11.36 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft"
Sources:
1. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ACCR.pdf
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p060.html
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A4.htmll
4. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh84-dragon-lydd
5. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-gb-registers-g-ac
6. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH84.pdf
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Tr%C3%A9port
8. A Flying Life: An Enthusiast's Photographic Record of British Aviation in the 1930s by Richard Riding
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 3 June 1934 | G-ACCR | Barnstaple & North Devon Flying Club | 0 | Lundy Island Airfield, Bristol Channel, Devon, |  |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 29-Dec-2011 14:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 02-Oct-2017 20:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Oct-2017 20:20 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-Dec-2017 01:09 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 08-Aug-2019 17:21 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 24-Oct-2022 23:24 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Country, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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