| Date: | Tuesday 7 November 1939 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Handley Page HP.42W |
| Owner/operator: | Imperial Airways |
| Registration: | G-AAXD |
| MSN: | HP.42/6 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1931 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Tiverton, Devon -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Exeter Airport (EXT/EGTE) |
The Handley Page HP.42W named "Horatius" was wrecked in a forced landing on Tiverton golf course. It was returning to Exeter from France when the pilot could not find Exeter due to bad weather, leading him to make a forced landing.
Sources:
World Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
UK Civil Register
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