ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 301418
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Date: | Sunday 26 May 1935 |
Time: | 09:45 |
Type: | British Klemm BK.1 Eagle 2 |
Owner/operator: | private |
Registration: | EC-CBB |
MSN: | 108 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Camocim, CE -
Brazil
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Natal (05:40) |
Destination airport: | Belém (15:00) |
Narrative:Crashed during emergency landing on Camocim aerodrome on record flight to Mexico due to fuel exhaustion. Pilot and owner Juan Ignacio Pombo Alonso-Pesquera (21) escaped unhurt. Left Hanworth via Santander, Madrid, Sevilla, Ifni, Senegal to Natal and intended to fly via Belém, Cayenne, Georgetown, Maracay, Barranquilla und Panama to Balbuena, Mexico.
Sources:
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/BK_BAMco.pdf La Nación (Santiago) 27 May 1935, p1
http://www.lamontera.net/2015/07/juan-ignacio-pombo-heroe-de-la-aviacion.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Nov-2022 16:03 |
harro |
Added |
18-Aug-2023 16:07 |
TB |
Updated |
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