| Date: | Wednesday 1 February 1950 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Shorts S.45 Solent 3 |
| Owner/operator: | British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC |
| Registration: | G-AHIX |
| MSN: | S.1310 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1948 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Southampton -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | |
| Southampton water |
A gust lifted the Solent flying boat causing the plane to plunge nose down into the water.
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