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Date: | Saturday 17 July 1948 |
Time: | |
Type: | Airspeed AS.65 Consul |
Owner/operator: | Extractors (Hull) Ltd |
Registration: | G-AIIO |
MSN: | 4349 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mountains near Lumbreras, La Rioja -
Spain
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Executive |
Departure airport: | White Waltham, Berkshire (EGLM) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Airspeed AS.65 Consul c/n 4349 ex-RAF Oxford PK297. First civil registered on 17.9.46 to Airwork Ltd, Heston as G-AIIO. C of A 8428 issued 21.10.46. Re-registered 29.10.46 to Extractors [Hull] Ltd, White Waltham, Berkshire.
Hit the slope of a mountain located near Lumbreras, province of La Rioja. All three occupants flying from White Waltham were killed.
Registration G-AIIO formally cancelled by CAA on 17.7.48 as "crashed"
Sources:
1. British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919-1999.
Compiled by Michael Austen
Air Britain (Historians) Ltd. 1999.
ISBN 0 85130 281 5
2.
http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/airspeed%20oxford%20&%20consul.pdf 3.
https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/HistoricalMaterial/G-AIIO.pdf 4. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1948/archives/crash-of-an-airspeed-as-65-consul-in-spain-3-killed/]
5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbreras Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
22-Jan-2010 23:19 |
John Baker |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Source, Narrative] |
07-Dec-2011 08:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
05-May-2017 16:59 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |