Incident de Havilland DH.89B Dominie F-BAHY,
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Date:Friday 20 August 1954
Time:day
Type:Silhouette image of generic DH89 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
de Havilland DH.89B Dominie
Owner/operator:Societe Autrex Lopez Loreta & Cie
Registration: F-BAHY
MSN: 6276
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Seno, Savannahket -   Laos
Phase: Take off
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Seno, Savannahket, Laos
Destination airport:Hanoi, Vietnam
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
First Registered as G-ADAJ [C of R 5485] 30.4.35 to unknown party (possibly De Havilland Aircraft Co Ltd., Stag Lane, Edgware, Middlesex; aircraft based at Hatfield, Hertfordshire). Re-registered [C of R 5869] 10.5.35 to Hillmans Airways Ltd, Stapleford, Essex. C of A 4829 issued 5.6.35; delivered same day. Merged into British Airways Ltd 11.12.35; re-registered to them [C of R 6629] 10.1.36, still based at Stapleford. Re-registered [C of R 7364] 22.9.36 [and delivered 26.12.36] to Highland Airways Ltd, Kintore, Inverness; named "Inverness" in July 1937.

Merged into Scottish Airways Ltd, Inverness 12.8.37 and registered to them [C of R 8565] 18.6.38. Operated by AAJC at Inverness during WWII. Registered 1.2.47 to BEA (British European Airways Corporation). Registration cancelled 21.11.47 as "sold abroad". C of A renewed 1.4.48.

Inspected at Le Bourget 14.4.48; delivered to Tananarive, Madagascar, 21.4.48. Registered in France as F-BEDY 22.4.48 to Air France, Ivato, Madagascar. Registered as F-OADY (C of A 246167) 31.5.49 to same owner. Returned to Le Bourget late 1949. Registered as F-BAHY (C of R 17783) 21.10.50 to Air France, and operated by Ecole de l'Aviation Civile.

Sold 10.7.52 to Societe Autrex Lopez Loreta & Cie, Hanoi, Indo-China. Written off when crashed into trees on take off Seno, Savannahket, Laos 20.8.54. Registration cancelled 22.12.56 as destroyed

Sources:

1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ADAJ.pdf
3. http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/component/content/article?id=78
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A6.html
5. http://www.angelfire.com/home/laoslist/ACReg/Autrex.html
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89b-dragon-rapide-seno
7. ‘The Triple Alliance’ by Neville Doyle, Air-Britain 2001

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
22-May-2009 12:58 XLerate Added
12-Dec-2011 16:27 Dr. John Smith Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
02-Jan-2018 19:03 Dr. John Smith Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Feb-2019 01:05 Dr. John Smith Updated [Time, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
28-Feb-2019 01:07 Dr. John Smith Updated [Source]
28-Feb-2019 01:09 Dr. John Smith Updated [Source]

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