Date:	Friday 12 August 1932
Time:	day
Type:	Avro 594B Avian IVM
Owner/operator:	G W Salt & F B Taylor
Registration:	G-AAKA
MSN:	324
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing
Location:	Missing Gulf of Martaban off Burma -   Indian Ocean
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Moulmein, Burma (now Mawlamyine, Myanmar)
Destination airport:	Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
c/no. 324 Avro 594B Avian IVM: Registered as G-AAKA [C of R 2088] 7.29 to Malayan Motors Ltd. C of A 2252 issued 26.9.29. C of A lapsed 25.9.30. Regn cancelled as 'crashed' 2.31. Presumably repaired/rebuilt as re-registered [C of R 3832] 2.7.32 to F.B. Taylor & G.W. Salt. C of A not renewed.

The crew (English Plantation Managers Geoffrey Wyndham Salt (aged 27) and Fergus Burtholme Taylor (aged 29)) departed 12.8.32 from Mawlamyine (Moulmein) on a flight to Yangon (Rangoon) in Burma. En route, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the Gulf of Martaban, Indian Ocean. No trace of the aircraft nor the crew was ever found. Registration G-AAKA cancelled December 1932 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft"

The Gulf of Martaban (Burmese: မုတ္တမပင်လယ်ကွေ့) or the Gulf of Mottama is an arm of the Andaman Sea in the southern part of Burma. The gulf is named after the port city of Mottama (formerly known as Martaban). The Sittaung, Salween and Yangon rivers empty into it.

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Jul-2020 09:27	Cobar	Added
25-Jul-2020 09:31	Cobar	Updated [Damage]
07-Jun-2023 00:18	Ron Averes	Updated [[Damage]]