| Date: | Friday 1 March 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page HP.42E |
| Owner/operator: | Imperial Airways |
| Registration: | G-AAGX |
| MSN: | HP.42/1 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1930 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 55 km off Dibba, Oman [Gulf of Oman] -
 Indian Ocean
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Jiwani Airport (JIW/OPJI) |
| Sharjah Airport (SHJ/OMSJ) |
The Handley Page HP.42E named "Hannibal" went missing over the Gulf of Oman with four crew and four passengers on board.
Wreckage washed up on the Iranian coast at Ras al Kuh, about 25 miles east of Jask.
Sources:
Early Aviation Disasters / D. Gero, 2011
El Litoral 2-3-1940
Flight, March 7, 1940
Location
Images:
photo (c) American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept.; Lydda Airport (TLV/LLBG)
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