ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 274432
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| Date: | Saturday 1 April 1950 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | Miles M.65 Gemini 1A |
| Owner/operator: | Victoria Falls Airways Ltd |
| Registration: | VP-RBK |
| MSN: | 6501 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Rand Airport, Germiston, Johannesburg -
 South Africa
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Rand Airport, Germiston, Johannesburg (FAGM) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
MSN 6501: Miles M.65 Gemini 1A. Registered (C of R 11885/1) as G-AKFW to Airwork Ltd, London W.1, 10.9.47. C of A 9741 issued 10.10.47. Registration G-AKFW temporarily cancelled 30.12.47. Re-registered 10148 (C of R 11885/2) to John Howard & Co Ltd, London SW.1. Registration G-AKFW cancelled 28.9.48 as 'sold abroad'.
Re-registered as VP-RBK to John Howard & Co Ltd, Northern Rhodesia. To Zambezi Airways Ltd, operated by Victoria Falls Airways Ltd.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed on take-off at Rand Airport, Germiston, Johannesburg, South Africa 1.4.50
Rand Airport (QRA/FAGM) is an airport in Germiston, South Africa. It was constructed in the 1920s as the main airport for Johannesburg, but the city outgrew it and replaced the airport with Palmietfontein Airport in 1948 (itself replaced by Jan Smuts International Airport in 1952).
Rand Airport is notorious for its hot and high conditions and relatively short runways. Situated at an altitude of 1,680 metres (5,510 ft) above sea level, the density altitude is as high as 2,590 metres (8,500 ft) when the outside air temperature (OAT) is 30 °C. Special consideration must be given to flight planning in the summer when the ambient temperature is that high; there have been many accidents at this airfield as a result of reduced aircraft performance under these extreme conditions. A compounding factor is the lack of forced landing fields or areas, as the airport is surrounded by urban sprawl.
Sources:
1. P D Stemp, 2010, The Aviation Archive of Miles Aircraft
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AKFW.pdf
3. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_1993.pdf
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Airport#After_World_War_II
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 21-Jan-2022 02:56 | Ron Averes | Added |
| 15-May-2022 05:27 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 21-Sep-2022 22:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category] |
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