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Date: | Tuesday 18 August 1970 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Miles Aircraft S.E.5a replica |
Owner/operator: | 20th Century Fox Film Productions Ltd |
Registration: | EI-ARB |
MSN: | SEM.7283 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Wicklow Head, Co Wicklow -
Ireland
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Survey |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Ex-G-ATGW (first registered in the UK on 20-7-1965). Re-registered in Eire as EI-ARB on 17-5-1967. EI-ARB was lost in an fatal accident on the 18-8-70 in a mid air collision with the camera ship, Alouette G-AWEE, over Wicklow Head, during the filming of the movie "Zeppelin". The Irish Air Corps pilot Jim Liddy of the SE.5A and all on board the Alouette (pilot Gilbert Chomat "Gilly", camera man Skeets Kelly and director Burch Williams) were killed.
Sources:
1. ABC (Madrid) 19 August 1970, p 20
2. Internet Movie Database
3.
https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?88645-SE5-replicas 4.
http://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ATGW.pdf Media:
EI-ARB/A4850 (c/no. SEM.7283) Full scale SE-5A replica built by S.E. Miles in 1967 for use in the film "Darling Lili". It is taxying out at Baldonnel to make a sortie for filming.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Apr-2016 19:10 |
TB |
Added |
17-May-2016 21:42 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Time, Cn, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
17-May-2016 21:43 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
18-May-2016 11:54 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
18-May-2016 11:56 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
16-Nov-2022 07:12 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |