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| Date: | Monday 25 August 1958 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Beechcraft E18S |
| Owner/operator: | Ceylon Survey Department |
| Registration: | 4R-AAS |
| MSN: | BA-376 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lunawa -
 Sri Lanka
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Little or no information is available |
Replacement for 4R-AAR which crashed in Italy on its delivery flight.
Hit a coconut tree and crashed into a cemetery near Colombo's Beach on a training flight. Caught fire. US instructor Capt L. Meyer and two Ceylonese pilots were injured.
Note: the twin-engine Beechcraft was handed over 22 August by US Ambassador Maxwell Gluck as a gift from US for aerial mapping. Replaced by 4R-AAU, c/n BA-433.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
Gettysburg Times 26 August 1958, p1
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 05-Apr-2011 13:18 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Country, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Apr-2022 20:01 | Cobar | Updated [Location, Phase, Nature, Narrative, ] |
| 26-Apr-2022 21:34 | Ron Averes | Updated [Operator, ] |
| 26-Apr-2022 21:40 | Ron Averes | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 09-Aug-2022 20:06 | TB | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Feb-2025 22:13 | Ron Averes | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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