ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 200710
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| Date: | Tuesday 27 April 1920 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Nieuport Delage 30T |
| Owner/operator: | Compagnie générale transaérienne |
| Registration: | F-CGTY |
| MSN: | 6526 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | English Channel, between Calais and Dover -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Le Bourget Airfield, Paris, France (LBG/LFPB) |
| Hounslow Heath, Hounslow, Middlesex | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Nieuport Delage 30T F-CGTY (c/no. 6526): Written off (presumably destroyed) in a fatal accident 27.4.20. The pilot, the sole person on board, departed Paris-Le Bourget on a mail flight to Hounslow Heath, London. While cruising over The Channel, between Calais and Dover he encountered thick fog when the airplane crashed in the sea in unknown circumstances. The pilot was killed.
According to a rough translation from French into English of the French Wikipedia entry on this aircraft type
"Nieuport-Delage NiD.30T: The prototype (F-CGAT) was eventually retained by Nieuport-Astra, later becoming the Nieuport NiD.30T1, and six NiD.30Ts entered service on the line between Le Bourget and Hounslow. Their operation was as brief as it was troubled: on 29 March 1920, F-CGTI crashed at Lympne. On the 27 April 1920, F-CGTY crashed in the English Channel in intense fog. The second aircraft then received a sound frequency orientation system that operated by direction finding. On the 24 November 1920, F-CGTO struck a hill at Ide Hill, near Sevenoaks. The last three examples (F-CGTA/E/U) were taken out of service as soon as Compagnie générale transaérienne merged with Compagnie des messageries in 1921 and were cancelled.
Sources:
1. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-nieuport-delage-nid-30t-channel
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuport-Delage_NiD_30
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_F-22.html
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuport-Delage_NiD_30
5. https://no.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Nieuport-Delage_NiD.30T#Les_versions [French text]
6. https://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=20789.0
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Oct-2017 15:17 | Sergey L. | Added |
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