Date:	Tuesday 17 July 1934
Time:	day
Type:	de Havilland DH.60M Moth
Owner/operator:	Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co of Canada Ltd
Registration:	CF-AAI
MSN:	792
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Sinclair Hot Springs, British Columbia -   Canada
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Trail, British Columbia
Destination airport:	Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia

Narrative:
DH.60M Moth CF-AAI, Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co of Canada Ltd., Trail, British Columbia. Written off (destroyed) when hit a tree in downdraught in canyon near Sinclair Hot Springs, British Columbia 17.7.34 and destroyed by fire; pilot Curly Somerville survived

Note that the reported crash location of "Sinclair Hot Springs" appears to be a conflation of the Sinclair Pass (elevation 1,486 metres or 4,875 ft) - a high mountain pass in Kootenay National Park between the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers - and the present-day Radium Hot Springs in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
2. https://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-canada-register/cf-a?highlight=WyJjZi1hYWoiXQ==
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_CF-.html
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p007.html
5. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1981.pdf
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Pass

c/no. 792 DH.60M Moth [Gipsy I #387] to DeHavilland Canada without C of A; arrived Mount Dennis 29.4.29. Registered as CF-AAI [C of R 613] 18.5.29 to Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co of Canada Ltd, Trail, British Columbia; delivered ex-Dominion Airways, Vancouver, BC 23.6.29. Registration cancelled as 'lapsed' 19.3.32, later restored. Presumably not repaired, as registration CF-AAI cancelled as 'lapsed' 13.12.34. Formally cancelled as 'destroyed' 30.3.35.

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Mar-2024 17:30	Dr. John Smith	Added