ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 222181
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| Date: | Saturday 24 July 1954 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide |
| Owner/operator: | Maluti Air Services, Johannesburg |
| Registration: | ZS-BEA |
| MSN: | 6626 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Leribe, Basutoland -
 Lesotho
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Ficksburg Sentraoes Airport Ficksburg (FCB/FAFB) |
| Tlokoeng Airport, Tlokoeng (TKO/FXTK) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
C/no. 6626 Taken on charge as X7509 against Contract No B.104592/40 at 9 MU RAF Cosford 30.4.42. To 47 MU RAF Sealand 24.5.42 for packing for shipment. Shipped ex Glasgow 18.8.42 on the s.s."Empire Might" to Cape Town; arrived Cape Town 16.9.42. To SAAF as "1358". To 9 Aircraft Depot [later in 9.42]. To 62 Air School 15.10.42. To “A” Flight, 11 OTU 15.9.44. To 61 Squadron, SAAF December 1944 to January 1946. To 15 Aircraft Depot and offered for sale 12.4.46. [Struck off charge by RAF 26.9.46 as sold locally].
Sold 5.7.46 to Aircraft Operating Co (for £2,250). Registered as ZS-BEA 10.8.46. Registered in 1953 to Orange Free State Air Services (Pty) Ltd, Bloemfontein. Re-registered in July 1954 to Trans Oranje Air Services (Pty) Ltd, Zastron, Orange Free State; operated by Maluti Air Services, Johannesburg.
Crashed Leribe, Basutoland, Lesotho 24.7.54 en route Ficksburg-Tlokoeng in Mokhotlong District, Lesotho; no casualties reported. Registration cancelled 24.7.54.
However, also reported by other sources (see link #3) as in operation by South West Air Transport (Pty) Ltd when starboard engine caught fire on start-up and aircraft destroyed by fire at Otjimarongo, South West Africa 22.2.55
Sources:
1. https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/dh89.pdf
2. http://www.dehavilland.co.za/DH89_Dragon_Rapide.html
3. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p066.html
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Feb-2019 23:19 | Dr. John Smith | Added |
| 09-Mar-2019 21:03 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Total occupants, Country, Narrative] |
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