Date:	Tuesday 7 April 1942
Time:
Type:	de Havilland DH.91 Albatross
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	AX904
MSN:	6801
Year of manufacture:	1937
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Reykjavík RAF Station (RKV) -   Iceland
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Reykjavík RAF Station (RKV/BIRK)

Narrative:
The transport aircraft, impressed into Royal Air Force Service from BOAC on 1.9.40, was operated by the 271 Squadron.
It was destroyed when the landing gear collapsed on landing at Reykjavik, Iceland.

Jackson, A. J. (1987). De Havilland aircraft since 1909. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-896-4
Jackson, A. J. (1973). British Civil Aircraft since 1919, Volume 2 (2nd edition ed.). Putnam. ISBN 0-370-10010-7

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Secretary of State for Air, Air Ministry (G-INFO)

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