Date:	Tuesday 26 September 1933
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.84 Dragon
Owner/operator:	Aircraft Operating Company of South Africa Pty Ltd
Registration:	ZS-AEF
MSN:	6026
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Baragwanath Airport, Near Johannesburg, Gauteng -   South Africa
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Survey
Departure airport:	Baragwanath Airport, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa (FASY)
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
c/no. 6026 (Gipsy Major #5205/5206): to De Havilland South Africa with C of A 3921 issued 26.5.33 and delivered 30.6.33. Registered in South Africa as ZS-AEF [C of R 110] 28.7.33 to The Aircraft Operating Co of South Africa Pty Ltd, Johannesburg; for use on 20,000 sq mile air route survey of Northern Rhodesia (the present day Zambia).

Crashed following steep turn after take-off turn at 250 feet altitude and fell to ground at Baragwanath, Johannesburg 26.9.33. Aircraft caught fire on impact with the ground, killing Pilot William John Charles Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick, founder and Managing Director of The Aircraft Operating Co of South Africa and passenger Sir Michael Oppenheimer

According to a contemporary report in the "New York Times" )September 27, 1933, Page 23):

"PRETORIA, South Africa, Sept. 26 -- Major Charles Kennedy Cochran-Patrick, a distinguished wartime pilot, and Sir Michael Oppenheimer were killed this morning when their airplane crashed at Baragwanath Airdrome and burst into flames. Stanley People, ground engineer, made a heroic effort to save the fliers".

Sir Michael Oppenheimer, 2nd Baronet, was born on 26 December 1892. He was the son of Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, 1st Baronet. and Lena Straus. He married Caroline Magdalen Harvey, daughter of Sir Robert Grenville Harvey, 2nd Baronet. and Emily Blanche Murray, on 16 December 1920. He died on 26 September 1933 at age 40. He was educated at Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He was admitted to Inner Temple entitled to practice as a barrister.

1. "New York Times" )September 27, 1933, Page 23): https://www.nytimes.com/1933/09/27/archives/british-fliers-die-in-crash-in-africa-major-cochranpatrick-noted.html
2. "DEATH OF MAJOR COCHRAN-PATRICK, D.S.O., M.C." Flight. XXV: 971. 28 September 1933. No. 1292
3. http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/index.phpscotland/kennedy.php
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH84.pdf
5. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/zs-aaa.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick#Postwar_life
7. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh84-dragon-i-baragwanath-2-killed
8. http://www.thepeerage.com/p54701.htm#i547009
9. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Accmisc.htm
10. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p060.html
11. https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Curt-Oppenheimer-2nd-Bt/6000000047886527053
12. https://www.thepeerage.com/p54701.htm
13. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76123146
14. https://www.dehavilland.co.za/DH84_Dragon.html
15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Dragon#Accidents_and_incidents
16. https://metar-taf.com/airport/FASY

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Sep-2008 01:00	ASN archive	Added
08-Sep-2009 10:27	postmachoguy	Updated
27-Dec-2011 07:37	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
02-Oct-2017 18:42	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Nature, Source, Narrative]
14-Feb-2019 02:31	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Source]
26-Oct-2022 22:16	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category]
26-Oct-2022 22:24	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Nature, Source, Narrative]