This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can
submit corrected information.
Date: | Saturday 10 September 1938 |
Time: | 21:05 |
Type: | Seversky P-35 |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) |
Registration: | 36-423 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Glencoe, Ontario, CAN -
Canada
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Buffalo, NY |
Destination airport: | Selfridge Field, MI |
Narrative:On a ferry flight to bring a new Seversky plane from Washington, D.C., to Selfridge Field, Michigan, the aircraft struck a tree and crashed in a field near Glencoe, Ontario.
Sources:
https://aviationarchaeology.com/listPages/airforce/asp/AF_Monthly_1938.asp https://books.google.nl/books?id=fLwtAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA18-PA14&lpg=RA18-PA14&dq=glencoe+ontario+aircraft+crash+september+9+1938&source=bl&ots=4jB7CmtIOx&sig=ACfU3U0bOPA1fi0vK4EwY_X7RgVBg28uMw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwitp-Tw1uzyAhUFwKQKHYHAAYwQ6AF6BAgSEAM#v=onepage&q=glencoe%20ontario%20aircraft%20crash%20september%209%201938&f=false "U.S. Army Plane Crashes; Pilot Dies as It Burns," Toronto Daily Star, 12 September 1938, page 5:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-daily-star-us-army-plane-cra/132861042/ Correspondence concerning accident from Ontario Airways Ltd in Glencoe, to American Airways Operations, Chicago, 11 September 1938 [in the American Airlines. Safety Office Collection (MS-013), Aviation Safety & Security Archives, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ]
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Sep-2021 10:44 |
Cobar |
Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source] |
04-Oct-2023 06:47 |
ASASA |
Updated [[Date, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Departure airport, Source]] |