ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 2241
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| Date: | Monday 6 December 1937 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Hawker Audax Mk I |
| Owner/operator: | 5 FTS RAF |
| Registration: | K5159 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Globe Street, Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | RAF Sealand, Flintshire |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Hawker Audax I K5159, 5 FTS, RAF Sealand: Written off (destroyed) 6/12/37 when collided with Church Steeple, and then crashed on house in fog, Globe Street, Everton, Liverpool. Pilot - Acting Pilot Officer Gordon Dutton Angus (aged 20) - was killed. According to the official Air Ministry announcement in "Flight" magazine (December 9, 1937 page 585 - see link #5)
"FLYING ACCIDENTS
Acting P/O Gordon Dutton Angus lost his life in an accident which occurred at Everton, Liverpool, on December 6, to an aircraft of No. 5 Flying Training School, Sealand, Chester."
According to an article in the "LIverpool Echo" (23/8/2008 see link #3):
"The first plane crash over Liverpool occurred in 1937. An RAF fighter plane was flying in fog over the city and hit the steeple of a church, crashing into a row of houses in Everton Valley. Locals Thomas Flood and Thomas Baguely ran to help but were beaten back by the flames.
It shows how Liverpool was covered in smog because of all the coal fires we had. Thomas Flood later went on to receive the St George’s medal during the Blitz, and someone wrote in to me who had been rescued by him. He was just a window cleaner from Walton."
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft K1000-K9999 (James J. Halley, Air Britain, 1976 page 40)
2. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Acc1937.htm
3. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/blaze-of-glory-days-3479432
4. https://twitter.com/Liverpool1207/status/806072547099996160
5. https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1937/1937%20-%203457.html
6. The Straits Times, 6 December 1937, Page 8 at http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19371206-1.2.16
Media:
#Liverpool OTD - 1937: A plane crashes on Royal/Globe St Everton. Pilot Gordon Dutton Angus aged 20 killed
— Liverpool1207 (@Liverpool1207) December 6, 2016
Pic: via @angelcakephotos pic.twitter.com/oG7Gh84HvQ
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Feb-2008 10:56 | JINX | Added |
| 30-Nov-2011 03:38 | Anon. | Updated [Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 07-Mar-2018 01:14 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 14-Apr-2018 21:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 21-Nov-2018 19:40 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Nature, Operator] |
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