ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 202404
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| Date: | 07-MAR-1933 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.60G Moth |
| Owner/operator: | British Air Transport Ltd |
| Registration: | G-ABEP |
| MSN: | 1292 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | English Channel en route from St Inglevert to Lympne -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Saint-Inglevert Airfield, Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais, France |
| Lympne Airport, Lympne, Kent (EGMK) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
DH.60G [Gipsy I] registered as G-ABEP [C of R 2799] 1.9.30 to The Henderson Aviation Bureau Ltd, Croydon Airport, Croydon, Surrey. C of A 2708 issued 4.9.30. Re-registered [C of R 2973] 1.31 to Capt Allan A.H. Charles, of (and remained operated by) The Henderson Aviation Bureau, Croydon.
Badly damaged in night-time crash Titsey Hill, Tatsfield, Surrey 27.5.31; repaired. Company reformed 5.31 as and re-registered [C of R 3431] 15.9.31 to British Air Transport Ltd, Croydon.
Written off (destroyed) when engine failed and aircraft ditched into the English Channel 7.3.33, while en route from St Inglevert to Lympne, Kent; pilot Captain Claud Edmund Clayton Penny and passenger G.P. Harrington were picked up by Dutch steamer "Vespa" but aircraft sank and was not recovered. There is a reference to this on the Wikipedia entry for Saint-Inglevert airfield:
"In November 1932, it was reported that new radio equipment was to be installed at Lympne and St Inglevert operating on the 15 centimetre waveband at 2,000 MHz, which would be used for the announcement of departures of non-radio aircraft across the Channel. Messages sent by radio were also printed out by a teleprinter, providing a record of the communication. The British Air Ministry and the French Ministère de l'Air co-operated in the arrangements for setting up the system, which was scheduled to come into operation in Spring 1933.
It proved its effectiveness on 7 March 1933, when a non-radio de Havilland DH.60 Moth of British Air Transport failed to arrive at Lympne. The aircraft had ditched in the Channel and both occupants were rescued by a steamship bound for Amsterdam, the Netherlands."
Registration G-ABEP cancelled 2.3.33 due to "destruction or permanent withdrawl from use of aircraft"
Sources:
1. "Aeroplane in the Channel". The Times (46387). London. 8 March 1933. col E, p. 14.
2. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/aeroplanes/15-aeroplanes/76-register-gb-g-ab
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ABEP.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A2.html
5. http://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/vicsmith/Accidents/May31.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Inglevert_Airfield#Between_the_wars
7. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh60.pdf
8. http://www.rcawsey.co.uk/Accb1934.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Dec-2017 15:26 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 24-Mar-2020 22:43 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Mar-2020 22:48 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 24-Mar-2020 22:51 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 22-Nov-2021 20:45 | Steve Brew | Updated [Source] |
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