ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 180
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| Date: | Wednesday 5 July 1950 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Type: | Taylorcraft Auster AOP Mk V |
| Owner/operator: | Luchtreclame Naarden |
| Registration: | PH-NDB |
| MSN: | 141 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Espel, Noordoostpolder, Overijssel -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The aircraft took off from a field nearby, which would be it's seventh flight to cropdust some fields that day. The aircraft flew several times above the field at a height of about 40 ft when the pilot made a climbing right turn followed by a small left turn. After that turn the aircraft lost lift and went in a nose down position making a 180 degree around it's axis before hitting the ground and catching fire near Pilotenweg. . The sole pilot August Willem Hamming was killed in the crash. Hamming was a one of the pilots that flew in the Dutch East Indies during the war, he used to fly the Curtiss Hawk and later the Hurricane. After Japan capitulated Hamming was liberated in Singapore, shortly after that he returned to the air force squadron at Java. In 1946 Hamming returned to The Netherlands. A tragic detail is that the mom from Hamming returned from the Dutch East Indies the same day of the crash.
After the accident it was concluded that the Auster was not a good aircraft for cropdusting because it was dangerous to make such thight turns at slow speeds, as needed above the fields. At the crash site a memorial was placed at 15 October 1952
Sources:
http://www.hdekker.info/Nieuwe%20map/1950.htm
https://www.flevolanderfgoed.nl/home/erfgoed/noordoostpolder-2/vliegtuigwrakken-3/auster-mk-v-ph-ndb.html
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jan-2008 10:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 30-Jan-2019 12:58 | Cobar | Updated [Source] |
| 02-Jun-2019 09:22 | Cobar | Updated [Phase, Nature, Narrative] |
| 26-Apr-2021 19:49 | MV-DP | Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Apr-2021 19:51 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Category] |
| 28-Apr-2021 06:13 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 11-Jun-2022 09:59 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2022 21:17 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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