ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341896
Date: | Thursday 23 May 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth AW.27 Ensign I |
Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
Registration: | G-ADSZ |
MSN: | AW.1164 |
Year of manufacture: | 1935 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Merville Airport (HZB) -
France
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Aircraft was on an international scheduled flight when over France, it was fired by German fighter. Crew diverted to Merville-Calonne Airport but on final approach, aircraft stalled and crashed in flames in a field. Occupant fate unknown.
Sources:
Aeroplane October 2011
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