Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 JUL 1943 |
| Type: | Short S.25 Sunderland III |
| Operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-AGES |
| C/n / msn: | |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 7 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 18 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 25 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Brandon village, Dingle Penninsula (Ireland)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Lisboa-Portela de Sacavém Airport (LIS/LPPT), Portugal |
| Foynes, Ireland |
Flew into high ground at 2000 ft in fog during flight from Lisbon to Foynes.
Sources:
» Foreign Aircraft Landings in Ireland 1939 - 1946
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
