ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18758
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Date: | Monday 2 August 1954 |
Time: | c. 16:00 LT |
Type: | de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
Owner/operator: | Autair Ltd |
Registration: | G-AGUR |
MSN: | 6910 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Frankfurt Airport, Near Kelsterbach, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse -
Germany
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Frankfurt/Rhein-Main (FRA/EDDF) |
Destination airport: | Frankfurt/Rhein-Main (FRA/EDDF) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:c/no. 6910: Taken on charge as NR846 at De Havilland Witney, Oxfordshire 30.7.45. Sold 21.12.45 to Scottish Airways Ltd. Registered as G-AGUR (C of R 9746/1) 9.11.45 to Scottish Airways Ltd, Renfrew. (on hire from Ministry of Civil Aviation) C of A 7257 issued 20.12.45 and delivered 12.1.46. Cancelled 31.1.47 and re-registered (C of R 9746/2) 1.2.47 to British European Airways Corporation; based at Renfrew, Glasgow with effect from 7.49; later named "RMA Lord Roberts". New C of R R23 issued 1950. Damaged Tiree 12.4.51; to Renfrew, Glasgow for repairs 13.4.51. C of A lapsed 2.11.53. Cancelled 10.11.53 and re-registered 30.11.53 to C.E. Harper Aircraft Co Ltd, Exeter, Devon. Cancelled and re-registerd 15.7.54 to Ronald Myhill, London W.1 for operation by (his company) Autair Ltd at Frankfurt. C of A renewed 16.7.54.
Written off (damaged beyond repair) 2.8.54: Ground looped and tipped on its nose during emergency landing on grass beside the runway with a flat right tyre at Frankfurt Airport, Near Kelsterbach, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, West Germany. The pilot and eight passengers were slightly injured. Aircraft damaged after returned from scenic flight over Frankfurt.
Registration G-AGUR cancelled 28.9.54 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use"
Sources:
1. Hamburger Abendblatt 3 August 1954
2.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH89.pdf 3.
https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AGUR.pdf 4.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-frankfurt 5.
https://www.airteamimages.com/de-havilland-dragon-rapide_G-AGUR_bea---british-european-airways_85493_large.html 6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Airport#Growth_of_the_airport Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-May-2008 11:10 |
ASN archive |
Added |
02-Jan-2012 05:53 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
17-Aug-2013 14:15 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative] |
06-Mar-2018 18:46 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
06-Mar-2018 18:48 |
TB |
Updated [Departure airport, Source] |
06-Mar-2018 18:49 |
TB |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
03-Mar-2019 02:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
03-Mar-2019 02:33 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
03-Mar-2019 02:34 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Narrative] |
28-Oct-2019 12:39 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
17-Dec-2019 22:59 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
01-Jul-2020 14:19 |
TB |
Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
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