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Date: | Wednesday 29 October 1919 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH-4 |
Owner/operator: | Aircraft Transport & Travel Ltd. |
Registration: | G-EAHG |
MSN: | F2694 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | The Channel, off Folkestone, Kent -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Le Bourget, Paris (LBG/PFPB) |
Destination airport: | Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey (EGCR) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Ex-RAF F2964 (former RAF serial used on CAA documentation in lieu of any official constructors number). First civil registered as G-EAHG (C of R 189) on 18.7.19 to Aircraft Transport and Travel Ltd.
Written off 29.10.19 when crashed into the English Channel off the coast of Kent in bad weather. Jerry Shaw was the pilot. They ran short of fuel in foul weather and alighted next to a small steamer (the s.s. Harlech) mid-Channel, close enough that pilot and passenger (an American businessman) walked to the ship along the top wing, and suffered only wet feet!'.
Registration G-EAHG cancelled 9.1.20 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawal from use of aircraft"
Sources:
1. Moss, Peter (1969). The British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919–1928. Brentwood, Essex, UK: Air-Britain (P.28)
2. Globe - Thursday 30 October 1919
3. De Havilland Enterprises: A History By Graham M. Simons
4.
https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/3855453-1919-flight-to-interlaken 5.
http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15363.0 6.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-E.html 7. Flight magazine of 23 October 1919:
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%201404.html?search=Interlaken 8.
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-EAHG.pdf 9.
http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/81-register-gb-g-ea Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
21-Dec-2013 02:05 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
05-Sep-2017 19:44 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Narrative] |
29-Oct-2017 13:47 |
Sergey L. |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
24-Jan-2019 01:36 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type] |
30-Mar-2020 19:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |