Accident de Havilland DH.60G Moth YU-PAS,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 48452
 
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Date:Friday 30 September 1938
Time:day
Type:Silhouette image of generic DH60 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.60G Moth
Owner/operator:Sarajevo Aeronautical club
Registration: YU-PAS
MSN: 1267
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Rajlovac, Sarajevo, East Herzegovina -   Bosnia and Herzegovina
Phase: Take off
Nature:Training
Departure airport:Rajlovac, Sarajevo, East Herzegovina
Destination airport:
Narrative:
DH.60G [Gipsy I] registered as G-ABBI [C of R 2677] 19.6.30 to Thomas George Mapplebeck, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. C of A 2572 issued 18.7.30. Registration cancelled 2.4.31 as sold abroad.

Re-registered UN-PAS [C of R 20] 27.4.31 to Aero Club du Royaume de Yougoslavie, Section Sarajevo, Sarajevo; named “Sarajevo”. Re-registered YU-PAS 30.9.33. Damaged 19.8.35; repaired.

Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed on take-off at Rajlovac, Sarajevo, East Herzegovina 30.9.38; both persons on board killed, one of them was the pilot, Vojske D. Isajić. Aircraft remains broken up for spares and scrap

NOTE: One published source (see link #1) claims that YU-PAS was not repaired after its crash on 19.8.35, and that the DH.60 Moth which crashed on 30.9.38 at Rajlovac, Sarajevo, East Herzegovina was YU-PDH (c/no. 1338, ex-G-AAFF, and named "Bosnia")

Sources:

1. Air Enthusiast 51
2. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A2.htmll
3. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/page-gb-registers-g-ab/g-ab-part-1?highlight=WyJnLWFiYmkiXQ==
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_UN-.html
5. http://www.baaa-acro.com/1938/archives/crash-of-a-de-havilland-dh-60-moth-in-sarajevo-2-killed/
6. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_YU-.html
7. https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ABBI.pdf
8. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isto%C4%8Dno_Sarajevo

Location

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
12-Nov-2008 06:34 harro Added
24-Jan-2014 04:50 Dr. John Smith Updated [Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
21-Aug-2017 21:55 Dr. John Smith Updated [Time, Narrative]
21-Aug-2017 21:58 Dr. John Smith Updated [Source, Narrative]
03-Oct-2023 08:30 Dr. John Smith Updated [[Source, Narrative]]

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