ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 28993
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| Date: | Wednesday 8 June 1938 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.85 Leopard Moth |
| Owner/operator: | Wilson Airways |
| Registration: | VP-KBE |
| MSN: | 7055 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Mjori Nuande, Mbuga, 50 miles from Singida -
 Tanzania
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanganyika |
| Dodoma, Tanganyika | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
DH.85 Leopard Moth (c/no. 7055) [UK C of A 4293 issued 12.5.34] Registered 23.8.34 (C of R 31) to Wilson Airways Ltd, Nairobi, Kenya as VP-KBE
Written off 8.6.1938: crashed near Mjori Nuande, Mbuga, 50 miles from Singida, Tanganyika (now Tanzania). All three occupants were killed:
W.M. Bawden (pilot, South African) killed
Bernard Dearman Burtt (Botanist, aged 35) killed
Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton CMG (Director of Tsetse Research, aged 60) killed
Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton was awarded the Order of St Michael and St George. However, on 8 June 1938, on his way to receiving the award, he died in a de Havilland Leopard Moth plane crash near Mjori in Tanganyika. His obituary in Nature was penned by Sir Guy Marshall.
Registration VP-KBE cancelled 30.6.38 as "crashed". Mbuga is an administrative ward in the Mpwapwa district of the Dodoma Region of Mbuga Tanzania (now Tanzania).
Sources:
1. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Accmisc.htm
2. http://planecrashinfo.com/1938/1938-23.htm
3. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/vp-kaa.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p070.html
5. Encyclopedia of African Airlines By Ben R. Guttery (p.104)
6. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/93-register-other
7. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_VP-K.html
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Massy_Swynnerton
9. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/93-register-other
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuga
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Francis_Massy_Swynnerton
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 17-Mar-2013 20:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Cn, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Mar-2013 23:46 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Oct-2017 21:59 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Oct-2017 21:59 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 08-Feb-2018 15:54 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 16-Feb-2019 21:33 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Oct-2022 22:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 10-Oct-2022 15:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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