ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18732
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Date: | Saturday 30 July 1949 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
Owner/operator: | North Sea Air Transport |
Registration: | G-AIWZ |
MSN: | 6867 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North East of Brough Airfield, Brough, East Yorkshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Brough Airfield, Brough, East Yorkshire (EGNB) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:c/no.6867: Taken on charge by RAF as NR791 at 18 MU Dumfries 16.3.45. To 1 Ferry Unit, Pershore 11.10.45. Returned to 18 MU Dumfries 12.6.46. Struck off charge 11.11.46. Sold 12.11.46 to Blackburn Aircraft Ltd. Registered as G-AIWZ (C of R 11043) 21.11.46 to North Sea Air Transport Ltd, Brough. C of A 8773 issued 13.1.47.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) when crashed into a barley field to North East of the airfield on landing Brough, East Yorkshire 30.7.49; pilot killed, all four passengers injured. Registration cancelled with effect from same day as "destroyed"
Sources:
1. National Archives (PRO Kew) BT 217/2593:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C576747 2.
https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf 3.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AIWZ.pdf 4.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-brough-1-killed 5.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p068.html 6.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/military/Crashes_in_Northern_England.pdf 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brough_Aerodrome#History Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
30-Dec-2011 10:03 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
21-Feb-2019 15:51 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
10-Dec-2019 19:28 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
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