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| Date: | Friday 11 February 1949 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Airspeed AS.65 Consul |
| Owner/operator: | Air Enterprises Ltd |
| Registration: | G-AGVY |
| MSN: | 3204 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Haitoure, near Jezzine -
 Lebanon
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Beirut, Lebanon |
| Amman, Jordan | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Operated in Middle East on UN charters. Missing on a flight from Beirut to Amman on 11.2.49. Search And Rescue operations were conducted, but eventually suspended a week later, as no trace of the aircraft nor the crew was found. Wreckage found near Hartoure, Jezzine, Lebanon 21.2.49. Walkers found the remaining wreckage of the aircraft in a snow covered area six weeks later, on 29.3.49, on the slopes of Roumaniye el Doub near the village of Haitoure, in the district of Jezzine, South Governorate (al-Janoub) Lebanon, when the snows had melted and uncovered the wreck.
Pilot G.E. Whitehead and radio operator E.C.S. Burden were killed.
Sources:
2. http://www.ab-ix.co.uk/pdfs/airspeed_oxford_&_consul.pdf
4. El Tiempo 16 February 1949, p8
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 23-Jan-2010 10:50 | John Baker | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 14-Mar-2010 12:12 | bert | Updated [Total occupants, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Dec-2011 18:57 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Feb-2012 11:29 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Embed code, ] |
| 20-Feb-2012 11:29 | harro | Updated [Embed code, ] |
| 06-Jan-2013 20:30 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Feb-2013 13:11 | clive burden | Updated [Date, Narrative, ] |
| 02-Mar-2014 23:52 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 25-Apr-2014 18:30 | TB | Updated [Location, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 16-Jul-2015 06:12 | stuart | Updated [Embed code, ] |
| 07-Aug-2015 19:32 | TB | Updated [Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 03-May-2017 19:47 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 03-May-2017 19:56 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 12:06 | TB | Updated [Location, Source, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 12:07 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 12:15 | TB | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 12:15 | TB | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 12:15 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 18:22 | TB | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 18:23 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 18:23 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 13-Aug-2018 18:24 | TB | Updated [Source, ] |
| 20-Mar-2019 20:29 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Jun-2020 19:30 | TB | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ] |
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