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| Date: | Saturday 27 August 1910 |
| Time: | 18:00 |
| Type: | Sommer Biplane |
| Owner/operator: | Clement van Maasdijk |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Warnsborn, Arnhem, Gelderland -
 Netherlands
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Warnsborn |
| Warnsborn | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Made a test flight before an airshow the next day in Arnhem. After making a sharp turn lost control and crashed from a height of 50 mtrs,the engine crushing and killing the pilot Clément van Maasdijk.
The first fatality in Dutch aviation.
Sources:
archive Bleiente
Aviateurs van het eerste uur (1984).
Wikipedia.
http://www.arneym.nl/verkeer/00000097aa0c954f0/index.html
Algemeen Handelsblad
28-08-1910
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Apr-2008 21:29 | Bleiente | Added |
| 23-Jan-2012 13:30 | harro | Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 24-Nov-2016 11:55 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, ] |
| 09-Mar-2019 12:08 | gerard57 | Updated [Source, ] |
| 20-Apr-2019 19:39 | Cobar | Updated [Embed code, ] |
| 22-Apr-2019 10:41 | Cobar | Updated [Time, Operator, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 16-Jun-2022 02:44 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, ] |
| 19-Apr-2024 01:16 | Cobar | Updated [Category, Photo, ] |
| 19-Apr-2024 01:16 | Cobar | Updated [Category, ] |
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