ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342208
Date: | Sunday 27 November 1938 |
Time: | |
Type: | Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat Mk I |
Owner/operator: | Imperial Airways |
Registration: | G-AETW |
MSN: | S.839 |
Year of manufacture: | 1937 |
Engine model: | Bristol Pegasus Xc |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Lake Habbaniyah -
Iraq
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed during sandstorm at night. The captain descended very low in the darkness and bad weather in order to fix his position by ground observation. The flying boat, named "Calpurnia", struck the water with the engines running at full power.
Sources:
Flight 20-7-1939 Location
Images:
photo (c) John Hamilton; River Tay ?
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