| Date: | Tuesday 4 August 1931 |
| Time: | 12:10 |
| Type: |  Fokker F.IX |
| Owner/operator: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
| Registration: | PH-AFK |
| MSN: | 5241 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1930 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 15 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Rotterdam-Waalhaven Airport -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Rotterdam-Waalhaven Airport |
| Amsterdam-Schiphol Municipal Airport (AMS/EHAM) |
Left engine failed on takeoff; hit light tower in attempt to return to the airport; left wing cut off.
The airplane operated on a flight from London to Amsterdam via Rotterdam.
Sources:
aviacrash.nl
Opsomming van de bekende ongevallen en incidenten in 1931 / H. Dekker
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