| Date: | Friday 13 January 1939 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Fokker F.XVIII |
| Owner/operator: | Commercial Aviation Company |
| Registration: | VQ-PAF |
| MSN: | 5310 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1932 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Lydda Airport (TLV) -
 Israel
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Demo/Airshow/Display |
| Departure airport: | Lydda Airport (TLV/LLBG) |
| Lydda Airport (TLV/LLBG) |
Aircraft took off for a flight around the airport to celebrate the inauguration of the "Commercial Aviation Company Ltd.", a company that was established by Haim Leibovitz and his pilot partner Dushinsky, to fly fresh fish from Aqaba to Tel Aviv via Lydda airport.
While landing, the pilot lost control and the aircraft veered off the runway into the mud.
Sources:
De Nederlandse Vliegtuigen / Th. Wesselink, Th. Postma
Israel Aviation History Website
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