Incident Blackburn RT.1 Kangaroo B9982,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 20956
 
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Date:Saturday 31 May 1919
Time:
Type:Blackburn RT.1 Kangaroo
Owner/operator:Grahame-White Aeroplane Co Ltd
Registration: B9982
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Hendon, Middlesex -   United Kingdom
Phase: Take off
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Hendon, London
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
Written off 31.05.19 when crashed due to engine failure on take-off from Hendon Aerodrome, Middlesex.

Note:Had been allocated registration G-EADF, but had not been taken up at time of accident. (Allocation of registration issued on 08.06.19 - a week after the aircraft crashed!). However, the official accident report into the crash quotes the civil registration it was not wearing...

Sources:

1. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd 1999
ISBN 0 85130 281 5
2. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-EADF.pdf
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-E.html
4. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6576469
5. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1919/archives/crash-of-a-blackburn-kangaroo-in-hendon/]

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
12-Jun-2008 00:58 JINX Added
23-Jan-2010 10:48 John Baker Updated [Source, Narrative]
16-Dec-2013 00:20 Dr. John Smith Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]

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