ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18754
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| Date: | Tuesday 10 July 1951 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd |
| Registration: | G-ALXJ |
| MSN: | 6863 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | off Skeirrip, near Laxey Head, Isle of Man -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Blackpool Airport, Lancashire (BLK/EGNH) |
| RAF Jurby, Isle of Man | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
c/no.6863: Taken on charge by RAF as NR787 at 18 MU Dumfries 8.3.45. To 87 Group Communications , Buc, France 30.5.45. To 428 R&SU, Buc 21.6.45. To 87 Group Communications Flight, Croydon 30.1.46. To De Havlland for maintenance 13.3.46; to 18 MU 8.11.46. To 4 Radio School Swanton Morley 12.2.48. To 5 MU RAF Kemble 8.4.49.
Sold 18.1.50 to Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd. Registered G-ALXJ (CofR 14917) 31.1.50 to Mrs Dorothy L Whyham, for Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd, Squires Gate. CofA 10831 issued 6.4.50.
Struck cliffs and fell back into sea off Skeirrip, near Laxey Head, Isle of Man 10.7.51. The aircraft was operating a scheduled cargo flight from Squires Gate Airport, Blackpool, Lancashire, to RAF Jurby, instead of its normal destination of Ronaldsway Airport, which was fogbound; pilot Capt Walker killed. Registration cancelled 11.7.51 as "aircraft missing in flight over sea."
Sources:
1. Air-Britain British Civil Aircarft Registers 1919-1999
2. Poole, Stephen (1999). Rough Landing or Fatal Flight. Douglas: Amulree Publications. ISBN 1 901508 03
3. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/dh89.pdf
4. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-ALXJ.pdf
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Dragon_Rapide#Accidents_and_incidents
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_airliners_in_the_United_Kingdom
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 05-May-2009 10:30 | MikeG | Updated |
| 30-Dec-2011 11:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 03-Jan-2012 14:02 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Feb-2019 15:17 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Source, Narrative] |
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