ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 180214
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| Date: | Saturday 4 May 1940 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: | de Havilland DH.85 Leopard Moth |
| Owner/operator: | de Havilland Aircraft Co of South Africa Pty |
| Registration: | ZS-AEP |
| MSN: | 7020 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Carolina, Transvaal -
 South Africa
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Lourenzo Marquez, Mozambique |
| Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa |
c/no. 7020: To de Havilland Aircraft Co of South Africa Pty with C of A 4141 issued 12.1.34. Registered ZS-AEP 1.3.34.
Destroyed 4.5.40 when crashed near Carolina, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa. Two persons on board killed: President Stanley 'Pop' People and his wife. Several published sources give the fate of this aircraft as "Destroyed Randfontein 25.6.40" but that was the date and location on which the registration was cancelled.
Carolina is an urban-rural area situated on the Johannesburg to Eswatini route (R33 and R38) in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The town lies in the grass and wetlands region of Mpumalanga at 1700 meters above sea level.
Sources:
1. Correio da Manhã 5 May 1940, p5
2. Algemeen Handelsblad 5 May 1940
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p070.html
4. https://air-britain.com/pdfs/archive/Archive_2008.pdf
5. https://www.dehavilland.co.za/DH85_Leopard_Moth.html
6. https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh85-leopard-moth-carolina-2-killed
7. https://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/OldAccs/Jun40.html
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina,_Mpumalanga
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 06-Oct-2015 17:13 | TB | Added |
| 17-Sep-2021 18:36 | Cobar | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Phase, Source] |
| 05-Oct-2022 19:10 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 05-Oct-2022 19:13 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 05-Oct-2022 19:15 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 09-Oct-2022 15:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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