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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/time | Contributor | Updates |
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] |