ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 18766
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| Date: | Monday 1 April 1946 |
| Time: | 09:45 |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Railway Air Services |
| Registration: | G-AERZ |
| MSN: | 6356 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near the Royal Belfast Golf Course, Craigavad, Northern Ireland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Liverpool (Speke) Airport (EGGP) |
| Belfast City Airport, Northern Ireland | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
MSN 6356: Registered as G-AERZ [C of R 7577] 10.3.37 to Air Commerce Ltd, Heston (later Croydon). (Gipsy Six #6677/6678) C of A 5823 issued 7.5.37. Operated by AAJC, Speke during WWII. To Scottish Airways Ltd, Renfrew 15.11.40; returned to AAJC Speke 15.5.41 (or 26.6.41). Damaged Islay 16.6.41; repaired. Leased to Scottish Airways Ltd, Renfrew 17.9.42; back to Speke 26.8.43 and operated by Railway Air Services Ltd with effect from 8.43.
Written off (destroyed) 1.4.46: On approach to Belfast-City Airport, the pilot encountered heavy rain falls and the horizontal visibility was reduced to 180 meters. Apparently to maintain a visual contact with the ground, he reduced his altitude when the aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in a wooded area near the Royal Belfast Golf Course, located in Craigavad, some 10 km northeast of the airport. The aircraft was destroyed and all six occupants were killed: captain E. Tyrer, radio operator O'Connor, Mr. Sydney Assinder, Supplies Manager of Short and Harland in Belfast; Mr. Basil Samuels, Mr. Curran and Dr. Marsden.
As reported in a contemporary newspaper (The West Australian (Perth, WA) Thu 4 Apr 1946 Page 7 - see link #1)
"PLANE CRASH IN IRELAND.
LONDON, April 3.-
Two members of the crew and four passengers were killed on Monday when a Railway Air Services plane flying from Liverpool to Belfast in dense fog crashed and caught fire near Holywood, County Down".
Craigavad (from Irish: Craig an Bháda, meaning 'rock of the boat') is a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland, lying within the civil parish of Holywood and the historic barony of Castlereagh Lower. Craigavad lies between the centre of Holywood and Bangor in the area administered by the Ards and North Down Borough Council.
Sources:
1. The West Australian (Perth, WA) Thu 4 Apr 1946 Page 7 - PLANE CRASH IN IRELAND: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50334180
2. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
3. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/AMIL-Accidents-Aug-1944-Jul-1950.pdf
4. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-AERZ.pdf
5. https://www.planecrashinfo.com/1946/1946-18.htm
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh89a-dragon-rapide-craigavad-cultra-6-killed
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigavad
8. The Aeroplane, 12 April 1946
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-May-2008 11:10 | ASN archive | Added |
| 28-Dec-2011 09:24 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-May-2012 11:12 | ryan | Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 26-Feb-2014 01:41 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 26-Feb-2014 01:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Destination airport] |
| 28-Oct-2017 19:27 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 31-Jan-2018 20:04 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Feb-2019 20:49 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 21-Feb-2019 14:05 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 09-Mar-2024 19:42 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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